X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 01:17:19 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <327576544.20100604011719@mtu-net.ru> To: Dave Korn , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char In-Reply-To: <4C046662.5060207@gmail.com> References: <20100513181249.GE13784@cupro.opengvs.com> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2F01D44@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20100526114733.GG10652@calimero.vinschen.de> <1254830174.20100526174227@mtu-net.ru> <20100526143428.GN10652@calimero.vinschen.de> <326990670.20100530001515@mtu-net.ru> <20100531081411.GE16885@calimero.vinschen.de> <14428931.20100601034233@mtu-net.ru> <4C046662.5060207@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Greetings, Dave Korn! >> Erm... how about ":type" suffix? Don't know how "POSIXy" it is, but it's close >> enough to similar functionality of NTFS (file streams). > To save having the whole discussion again, here's the summary from last time: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-03/msg00003.html *carefully raising eyebrows* Thanks for the link. I didn't though about cross-compatibility issues, and these concerns are understandable. My opinion is that there's no solution to the p.3 due to the fact that files don't have strict typization (other than file/directory/reparse). Using some kind of suffixing won't do much because it raising a mountain of ambiguity due to a wide range of characters allowed in value names (including "/:?*" as well as more trivial commas and dots, which are also allowed in file names) -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 04.06.2010, <1:05> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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