[Afpfs-ng-devel] afpfs-ng and OS X

[Alex d. <ale...@gm...>]

afpfs-ng 0.3.2 is not quite functional with OSX, and this is something
I know about and am working on.

Most of my work's been against netatalk, which behaves quite
differently from OS X.  An example of such a difference is the error
codes that are returned on some operations.  Existing afpfs-ng
behaviour will kill the connection.  There were also many problems
with large directory listings, file permissions, etc, etc.  10.3 is
also quite different from 10.4.

Another feature that's better is connection error handling.  The use
case that Martin's brought up is being able to connect to a share,
close your laptop and walk away, open up the laptop on the same
network again and see the same share as if you'd never left.  I have
some of this working.

I don't want people to get the impression that I've walked away from
afpfs-ng or anything, I'm just knee-deep in the code.

And if anyone out there has a copy of Mac OS 8.6 or 9.2 for pre-iMac
PPC macs, I'd really appreciate a copy so I can do some AFP 2.2
development.

- Alex