Re: Get login name and/or path to home directory of current user?

# > (char*) and the open file descriptor (int). Any complexity of 
# > interpretting the path are left to the kernel. FSRef is a redress
# > of FSSpec
# 
# That's a fascinating statement which I wonder if you can back up, 
# considering it's officially opaque and what is said is: "An FSRef 

If you had watched the evolution from PB interface then FS
through the H to the FSp to FSRef, you would understand that
it is obvious.

# contains whatever information is needed to find the given object; the 
# internal structure of an FSRef is likely to vary based on the volume 
# format, and may vary based on the particular object being identified."

This is Unix: what identifies an object is the path. What identifies
an inode is an open file descriptor. The alternatives to that are
a Darwin extension to allow an open on device and inode numbers instead
of path; or open the disk in raw mode to read the volume data structures
which are volume format specific.

# Of course, if you want to cache a long-term reference to a file, you'll 
# use an Alias.

Which would be a lot more usable if Darwin understood them the
way it does symlink(2).

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