Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:37:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: NTFS alternate stream Message-ID: <20020731183706.GA3973@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <003801c238bf$45d04020$0100a8c0@atomice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003801c238bf$45d04020$0100a8c0@atomice.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >I was pleasantly suprised to find that Cygwin supports NTFS alternate >streams. Was this by design or accident? You mean where you add a colon after the filename and store "extra stuff" in it? We'd have to work not to allow that, so I guess you could say it is by design. I'm sure that there must be some packages that don't understand it though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/