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A summary hint of rsync-related information
Authored by: krishna on Aug 31, '03 03:10:42AM

I'm showing my lack of experience in the Mac community by asking this question, and I know Un*x has many quirks that old wonks take for granted, but does it seem odd to anyone that third-party developers need to modify the programs that are released as part of MacOSX (such as rsync) in order to make them work with MacOSX's preferred filesystem (HFS+)?

Considering that Apple is getting almost the entire O/S for free, shouldn't it

* update the utilities to make them work properly,
* or not ship the utilities if they're almost certain to cause unexpected problems (such as loss of resource forks),
* or at the very least, update the man pages to indicate that they'll cause problems with HFS+,
* or at the very very least, remove the rsync man pages to indicate that it's not a documented utility?

Having access to Un*x under the hood of a platform hosting high-quality (Photoshop, Macromedia) and standard (Palm Desktop, Adobe office software, etc) applications makes me very, very happy -- so don't get me wrong. These oversights just seem out of whack for a system that otherwise works so well.



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