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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:50:11 -0500
To: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>, cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: listing ADS streams
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At 02:52 PM 11/7/2004, you wrote:
>mkdir temp; cd temp
>touch myfile.txt
>echo "This is hidden ADS" > myfile.txt:hidden.txt
>ls -al
>=> myfile.txt
>
>cat myfile.txt:hidden.txt
>=> This is hidden ADS
>
>Should ls -al or readdir() display such hidden files?
>Or should we provide/use seperate tools (such as lsattr for ext2)
>to manipulate such NTFS specific properties?


If such tools are needed, then I would choose the latter option.



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