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Technical Q&As: Darwin
Mac OS X provides several low-level programming interfaces for working with files and directories, such as the kqueue API. In addition to providing file access and statistics, these interfaces can also provide notification when a file is modified or deleted.
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Directories Appear as Volume Aliases (HTML)
QA1351: Discusses how VFS plug-ins should handle device numbers to ensure compatibility with Carbon applications.
 2004-05-25
Documentation for getattrlist (HTML) ()
QA1327: The behaviour of getattrlist, and other Apple enhancements to the BSD file system programming interface.
 2003-12-15
Text Encodings in VFS (HTML) ()
QA1173: How to handle text encodings correctly when writing a file system (VFS) plug-in for Mac OS X.
 2003-02-10
File Manager Text Encoding Hints (HTML) ()
QA1223: How to use Text Encoding Hints.
 2003-01-20