FileSystemProvider

[Alan Bateman]

On 01/08/2021 16:17, Michael Hall wrote:
> :
> An older one. I was just thinking on this though. My own Default provider is pretty much pass through. I think it was required for me to add my own attribute classes. If these attribute classes could be added directly to the existing platform Default I could eliminate the need to override provider. This might eliminate some of these security concerns and startup timing issues. Possibly there might be other security concerns for Default extensions (plugins?). But it would get me out of the startup process.
> I haven’t double checked yet to see if I could figure out a way to do so now without jdk changes.
I think you mentioned in a mail a long time ago that the motivation was 
creator codes. As I understand it, these were deprecated more than 10 
years ago in macOS 10.6. That said, if they are still relevant then I 
assume they are maintained as extended attributes, meaning using the 
UserDefinedAttributeView may provide to get to them if the format is 
documented.

-Alan