File Path Tracking

[Uli Kusterer]

Am 15.10.2007 um 22:36 schrieb Erik Buck:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think "Aliases" can cope with  
> network mount name changes any better than Unix paths.  In fact,  
> "Aliases" basically only work better than paths when used within  
> one partition of a local hard disk that is formatted as HFS+.  In  
> all other cases, an "Alias" is just a non-standard way to encode a  
> path that adds complexity for no value.  Am I wrong ?

  You are. Aliases will search for a file when it can't be referenced  
through a path or name, and thus will generally locate a file even  
when the drive has been unmounted or renamed, because they look at  
the actual names of the drives, and not at the name of the mount point.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de