allocinit

I’m not constrained to just reporting bugs on Fridays 🙂

This is an enhancement to existing functionality. When the Finder attempts to copy to a file server and runs out of disk quota, it displays the following, somewhat uninformative, message:

This message should be translated to a string informing the user that they are out of disk quota. This bug has been reported to Apple as Radar 4322110.

Channel 10 Australia started showing Drive TV this afternoon. My opinion, in short: don’t bother.

If you want to watch some good motoring television there’s still only one choice: Top Gear from BBC2 in the UK. And for Australians who haven’t seen it, it’ll soon be available on SBS (article available here).

An amusing take on TinyURL and friends is GiganticURL.

For example http://www.allocinit.net/ translates to:
http://www.GiganticURL.com/url/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vaHR0c
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Fun 🙂

I’m not sure most people really have any idea what this whole “postcasting thing” is going to turn into eventually, but perhaps one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve been listening to is Spodcast.

This is where I’m meant to say something inspiring to make you go and listen to it I guess, but to be honest I can’t think of anything that exciting to say. Maybe you should just listen to it yourself and see what you think.

So instead of doing anything even remotely productive tonight I decided to make a pretty new theme for this site. Given that I really can’t be bothered doing too much work, I ended up just making a cool new header image, and editing the colours a bit. Still, I don’t think it looks too bad.

It’s been a while, but never fear I’ve got a nice shiny new bug for you today.

Rsync can in some cases not handle the -E and -‍-delete functions very well when combined together. Because Apple chose to implement resource forks in rsync using their you-beaut-gee-whiz ._ files, when the resource fork doesn’t exist for the file, or indeed the file doesn’t exist at all in the source directory rsync happily attempts to unlink the corresponding ._ file. On an HFS+ volume, clearly this is going to fail, as it doesn’t exist (incidentally on a UFS, Xsan, FAT, etc volume, it’d work just fine, but rsync is still broken).

A Patch

Due to my extreme generosity, or alternatively in an attempt to get away from some software with a name that rhymes with typo, I’ve whipped up a quick fix to this problem. It may not be the best way to fix it, but it works, and it even removes the resource fork from a file if the resource fork should be deleted, but not the file itself. How’s that for slick?

(Yeah, pasting it into a website isn’t all that slick, but I’m too lazy to upload it as a file right now, so tough luck. And WordPress seems to have stuck \ characters before the quote characters. They shouldn’t be there.)

--- rsync-2.6.3/syscall.c	2005-10-11 14:44:42.000000000 +1000
+++ rsync-2.6.3/syscall.c	2005-10-11 15:47:06.000000000 +1000
@@ -53,6 +53,31 @@
 {
 	if (dry_run) return 0;
 	RETURN_ERROR_IF_RO_OR_LO;
+#ifdef EA_SUPPORT
+	if (extended_attributes
+		&& !strncmp(basename(fname), "._", 2)) {
+		int retval;
+		retval = unlink(fname);
+		if (retval == -1 && errno == ENOENT) {
+			char ftemp[MAXPATHLEN+17];
+			if (snprintf(ftemp, MAXPATHLEN+17, "%s/%s/..namedfork/rsrc", 
+					dirname(fname), basename(fname)+2) >= MAXPATHLEN+17)
+			{
+				errno = ENOENT;
+				return -1;
+			}
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s", ftemp);
+			retval = truncate(ftemp, 0);
+			if (retval == -1 && errno == ENOENT) {
+				return 0;
+			} else {
+				return retval;
+			}
+		} else {
+			return retval;
+		}
+	}
+#endif
 	return unlink(fname);
 }
 

For reference the bug is Radar 4295233.