http transactions create strange temp files (on MacOS X)

[Jens Alfke]

On 11 Oct '07, at 7:25 AM, Christian Ebert wrote:

> On MacOS 10.4.10 transactions over http (pull, incoming etc.)
> have the side-effect of creating strange temporary binary files
> of name /tmp/*.rsrc.

Creating temporary files in /tmp doesn't sound like a bug :)

But I don't see any files like this on my system.
Do the filenames correspond to files in the repository you're  
operating on?

> They seem to contain something like the
> output of "man 3 Mac::Errors" in binary form.

The .rsrc extension indicates they're probably Mac resource forks  
(file metadata in the old Resource Manager format, which nothing but  
old Carbon apps is using nowadays.) Weird. You can try decompiling  
their contents via:
	/Developer/Tools/DeRez foo.rsrc -useDF

--Jens