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, 21 Apr 2004 09:42:08 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al. Message-ID: <20040421074208.GA4092@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040420163719.02fefca8@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Apr 20 16:59, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Well, actually, I've always wondered -- what makes NTEA NT-specific? For It isn't. It's OS/2 specific. NT allows extended attributes for OS/2 compatibility in the first place. > the most part, all NTEA does is store some information (e.g., permissions, > and, of late, owner) in a special file in the root directory. The only Only on FAT. NTFS stores them in a file stream (as HPFS?). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/