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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:19:05 -0800
From: linda w <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cvs and NTFS streams do not play well together...
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It seems that the standard stream notation is "::".  programs like 
Notepad can
read and write to NTFS streams using the :: (double colon notation).  That
would seem to indicate thay are valid pathnames that describe a "file" 
of data.
I.e. -- ":" is valid in a pathname on an NTFS file system to indicate a 
stream.

":" also is a valid chacter on linux.  Sounds like a built-in 
incompatibility.

Note, that if you do a dir of file::stream, it won't showup, but you can 
open it,
so if cygwin implements the "open" call by first calling "dir" it will fail.

-linda




Brian Dessent wrote:

>aspiesrule AT mcleodusa DOT net wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 and cvs 1.11.6 on top of Windows NT 5.1.2600
>>SP1.  When I try to "cvs co" a file with a colon in its name, cvs gets
>>horribly confused by NTFS streams and commits suicide.  The exact error
>>message is as follows:  (note:  I was checking out the "src" module on
>>the "HEAD" branch in the FreeBSD Project's CVS repository when this cropped
>>up)
>>    
>>
>
>Filenames under Windows (both FAT and NTFS) cannot contain colons, so
>I'm not really sure what you're expecting Cygwin to do here.  It's a
>fundamental Windows limitation.
>
>That said, you should try a managed mount for your cvs checkout
>directory.  It's still an experimental feature but trying to use a
>filename with a colon on a normal mount is guaranteed to fail so I don't
>see that you have much to lose.
>
>Brian
>
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