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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
