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

In article <_ycbi.283$y05.169@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Gabriele Greco <gabrielegreco@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Anyway I agree with Bo about the use of FSRef in a Carbon program, but I

> also agree with SM Ryan that FSRef is a over-complex implementation to 
> retain compatibility with an older OS.

The point of an FSRef is *not* to retain compatibility with an older OS
but to 
provide functionality that neither aliases nor paths provide.

1) Path: represents a file system item that may or may not exist, no
longer 
valid if the item is moved or renamed, persists across processes, can be
used to 
identify one item relative to another.
2) FSRef: represents a file system item that must exist, remains valid if
item 
is moved or renamed, does not persist across processes.
3) Alias: represents a file system that may or may not exist (but can only
be 
created for existing items), remains valid if the item is moved or
renamed, 
persists across processes.

They are three different tools, and the right one depends on what you are
trying 
to do. The fact that FSRefs came along from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X does not
mean 
that they are a compatibility API, but that the reasons for using FSRefs
exist 
just as much in Mac OS X as they do in Mac OS 9.

Ben

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