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Date: | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:56:57 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed |
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Andy Koppe wrote: > I'd suspect the support for ADSs in 1.5 was rather accidental anyway. > POSIX programs certainly don't know about them, and you get the rather > weird situation that "files" like foo:bar can be accessed but don't > show up in the directory they're in. Hence I think the right way to > access ADSs is via Windows tools. Unless there is a POSIXy way to > represent them? > I've only learned about this ADS stuff recently but yes, I think, simply using the "a:b" syntax (which is also used by Windows tools) and handling them as a virtual file is a quite obvious POSIX way to do it. So if it worked in 1.5, whether accidental or not, I think it should continue to work in 1.7. The loss of this feature may simply be a consequence of handling illegal filename characters via the Unicode private range, so the resolution might be as easy as taking out ":" from this handling again, just a guess. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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