Re: CTree/ETree

[dlyons@apple.com (David A Lyons)]

In article <bvf.730580086@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Joshua Thompson,
bvf@tiamat.umd.umich.edu writes:
> Just out of curiosity, what would happen if we tried to read (or,
heaven 
> forbid, WRITE) to those files?  Would we end up reading some wonderful
B*Tree 
> nodes or something, or would the operation just return error $004B as
well?

(You could try it, with Exerciser, like I just did!)

Yes, you get error $4B for reading.  And if it got past the storage type
check (within the HFS FST) then it would still get a $4E, because the
"file" doesn't have Read -or- Write access (so shows Nifty List's \files
command).

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