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Does Mac still have resource forks? Either way, I'm sure it still has decent magic number decoding. Who (except family members in windows?) would care about the

by e12e 7y ago

Does Mac still have resource forks? Either way, I'm sure it still has decent magic number decoding. Who (except family members in windows?) would care about the missing extensions? The only real reason i care is for vim file detection (in Linux). How sad is that? :'(

dreamcompiler 7y ago
Resource forks are still supported. At least they were with HFS+. They might be gone in APFS. In any case with each release Apple makes it harder to access them.
- ksherlock 7y ago
  APFS still supports resource forks. (They're not as baked-in as HFS/HFS+, though.) APFS has good extended attribute support. Whereas linux extended attributes might be limited to 64k, APFS extended attributes can be significantly bigger (I just created a 32MB one). The xnu kernel has some ugly hacks (pre-dating APFS) which make the "com.apple.ResourceFork" available as a file ("/..namedfork/rsrc"). On HFS/HFS+, file/..namedfork/rsrc will always exist (and usually be empty). on APFS, file/..namedfork/rsrc will generate an ENOENT error if the resource fork/attribute doesn't exist.
NikkiA 7y ago
Even NTFS supports resource forks, noone uses it for anything though.