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Subject: Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5    	and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed
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On Nov 16 12:56, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Andy Koppe wrote:
> >I'd suspect the support for ADSs in 1.5 was rather accidental anyway.
> >POSIX programs certainly don't know about them, and you get the rather
> >weird situation that "files" like foo:bar can be accessed but don't
> >show up in the directory they're in. Hence I think the right way to
> >access ADSs is via Windows tools. Unless there is a POSIXy way to
> >represent them?
> I've only learned about this ADS stuff recently but yes, I think,
> simply using the "a:b" syntax (which is also used by Windows tools)
> and handling them as a virtual file is a quite obvious POSIX way to
> do it.
> So if it worked in 1.5, whether accidental or not, I think it should
> continue to work in 1.7.

It's a deliberate change.  It's more important to support as much POSIXy
filenames as possible than to access streams.  I agree with Andy.  Use
Windows tools to use them.


Corinna

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