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4 Contains: Routines for dealing with full pathnames... if you really must.
6 Version: Technology: MoreFiles
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31 The use of full pathnames is strongly discouraged. Full pathnames are
32 particularly unreliable as a means of identifying files, directories
33 or volumes within your application, for two primary reasons:
35 ¥ The user can change the name of any element in the path at
37 ¥ Volume names on the Macintosh are *not* unique. Multiple
38 mounted volumes can have the same name. For this reason, the use of
39 a full pathname to identify a specific volume may not produce the
40 results you expect. If more than one volume has the same name and
41 a full pathname is used, the File Manager currently uses the first
42 mounted volume it finds with a matching name in the volume queue.
44 In general, you should use a fileÕs name, parent directory ID, and
45 volume reference number to identify a file you want to open, delete,
46 or otherwise manipulate.
48 If you need to remember the location of a particular file across
49 subsequent system boots, use the Alias Manager to create an alias
50 record describing the file. If the Alias Manager is not available, you
51 can save the fileÕs name, its parent directory ID, and the name of the
52 volume on which itÕs located. Although none of these methods is
53 foolproof, they are much more reliable than using full pathnames to
56 Nonetheless, it is sometimes useful to display a fileÕs full pathname
57 to the user. For example, a backup utility might display a list of full
58 pathnames of files as it copies them onto the backup medium. Or, a
59 utility might want to display a dialog box showing the full pathname of
60 a file when it needs the userÕs confirmation to delete the file. No
61 matter how unreliable full pathnames may be from a file-specification
62 viewpoint, users understand them more readily than volume reference
63 numbers or directory IDs. (Hint: Use the TruncString function from
64 TextUtils.h with truncMiddle as the truncWhere argument to shorten
65 full pathnames to a displayable length.)
67 The following technique for constructing the full pathname of a file is
68 intended for display purposes only. Applications that depend on any
69 particular structure of a full pathname are likely to fail on alternate
70 foreign file systems or under future system software versions.
84 #include "Optimization.h"
99 #if PRAGMA_STRUCT_ALIGN
100 #pragma options align=mac68k
101 #elif PRAGMA_STRUCT_PACKPUSH
102 #pragma pack(push, 2)
103 #elif PRAGMA_STRUCT_PACK
107 /*****************************************************************************/
113 ConstStr255Param name
,
114 short * fullPathLength
,
119 The GetFullPath function builds a full pathname to the specified
120 object. The full pathname is returned in the newly created handle
121 fullPath and the length of the full pathname is returned in
122 fullPathLength. Your program is responsible for disposing of the
125 Note that a full pathname can be made to a file/directory that does not
126 yet exist if all directories up to that file/directory exist. In this case,
127 GetFullPath will return a fnfErr.
129 vRefNum input: Volume specification.
130 dirID input: Directory ID.
131 name input: Pointer to object name, or nil when dirID
132 specifies a directory that's the object.
133 fullPathLength output: The number of characters in the full pathname.
134 If the function fails to create a full
135 pathname, it sets fullPathLength to 0.
136 fullPath output: A handle to the newly created full pathname
137 buffer. If the function fails to create a
138 full pathname, it sets fullPath to NULL.
142 nsvErr -35 No such volume
144 bdNamErr -37 Bad filename
145 fnfErr -43 File or directory does not exist (fullPath
146 and fullPathLength are still valid)
147 paramErr -50 No default volume
148 memFullErr -108 Not enough memory
149 dirNFErr -120 Directory not found or incomplete pathname
150 afpAccessDenied -5000 User does not have the correct access
151 afpObjectTypeErr -5025 Directory not found or incomplete pathname
155 See also: FSpGetFullPath
158 /*****************************************************************************/
163 short * fullPathLength
,
168 The GetFullPath function builds a full pathname to the specified
169 object. The full pathname is returned in the newly created handle
170 fullPath and the length of the full pathname is returned in
171 fullPathLength. Your program is responsible for disposing of the
174 Note that a full pathname can be made to a file/directory that does not
175 yet exist if all directories up to that file/directory exist. In this case,
176 FSpGetFullPath will return a fnfErr.
178 IMPORTANT: The definition of a FSSpec is a volume reference number (not a
179 drive number, working directory number, or 0), a parent directory ID (not 0),
180 and the name of a file or folder (not an empty name, a full pathname, or
181 a partial pathname containing one or more colon (:) characters).
182 FSpGetFullPath assumes it is getting a FSSpec that matches the rules.
183 If you have an FSSpec record that wasn't created by FSMakeFSSpec (or
184 FSMakeFSSpecCompat from FSpCompat in MoreFiles which correctly builds
185 FSSpecs), you should call GetFullPath instead of FSpGetFullPath.
187 spec input: An FSSpec record specifying the object.
188 fullPathLength output: The number of characters in the full pathname.
189 If the function fails to create a full pathname,
190 it sets fullPathLength to 0.
191 fullPath output: A handle to the newly created full pathname
192 buffer. If the function fails to create a
193 full pathname, it sets fullPath to NULL.
197 nsvErr -35 No such volume
199 bdNamErr -37 Bad filename
200 fnfErr -43 File or directory does not exist (fullPath
201 and fullPathLength are still valid)
202 paramErr -50 No default volume
203 memFullErr -108 Not enough memory
204 dirNFErr -120 Directory not found or incomplete pathname
205 afpAccessDenied -5000 User does not have the correct access
206 afpObjectTypeErr -5025 Directory not found or incomplete pathname
210 See also: GetFullPath
213 /*****************************************************************************/
216 FSpLocationFromFullPath(
217 short fullPathLength
,
218 const void * fullPath
,
223 The FSpLocationFromFullPath function returns a FSSpec to the object
224 specified by full pathname. This function requires the Alias Manager.
226 fullPathLength input: The number of characters in the full pathname
228 fullPath input: A pointer to a buffer that contains the full
229 pathname of the target. The full pathname
230 starts with the name of the volume, includes
231 all of the directory names in the path to the
232 target, and ends with the target name.
233 spec output: An FSSpec record specifying the object.
237 nsvErr -35 The volume is not mounted
238 fnfErr -43 Target not found, but volume and parent
240 paramErr -50 Parameter error
241 usrCanceledErr -128 The user canceled the operation
245 See also: LocationFromFullPath
248 /*****************************************************************************/
251 LocationFromFullPath(
252 short fullPathLength
,
253 const void * fullPath
,
260 The LocationFromFullPath function returns the volume reference number,
261 parent directory ID and name of the object specified by full pathname.
262 This function requires the Alias Manager.
264 fullPathLength input: The number of characters in the full pathname
266 fullPath input: A pointer to a buffer that contains the full
267 pathname of the target. The full pathname starts
268 with the name of the volume, includes all of
269 the directory names in the path to the target,
270 and ends with the target name.
271 vRefNum output: The volume reference number.
272 parID output: The parent directory ID of the specified object.
273 name output: The name of the specified object.
277 nsvErr -35 The volume is not mounted
278 fnfErr -43 Target not found, but volume and parent
280 paramErr -50 Parameter error
281 usrCanceledErr -128 The user canceled the operation
285 See also: FSpLocationFromFullPath
288 /*****************************************************************************/
290 #include "OptimizationEnd.h"
292 #if PRAGMA_STRUCT_ALIGN
293 #pragma options align=reset
294 #elif PRAGMA_STRUCT_PACKPUSH
296 #elif PRAGMA_STRUCT_PACK
300 #ifdef PRAGMA_IMPORT_OFF
310 #endif /* __FULLPATH__ */