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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al. In-Reply-To: <20040422072803.GB1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040420163719.02fefca8@127.0.0.1> <20040421074208.GA4092@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040422072803.GB1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 21 13:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Apr 20 16:59, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > 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?). > > > > Sure, and we were talking about FAT... > > I understood what you wrote as if you were sure that EA are always > implemented as just a file in the root dir. It isn't. However, EA > is something implemented in the file system driver. The NT FAT > driver understands EA and writes that file, for the NTFS driver EA > are just a sort of stream and the FAT32 driver (Win2K+) doesn't > understand them at all. > > Corinna I see. Without looking at the code [WLATC (TM)] -- which seems to be happening rather often lately -- I assumed that the file in the root dir to store the EA was actually part of the Cygwin implementation, rather than the underlying API. Thanks for the clarification. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/