On Dec 20 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20 09:03, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2018-12-20 03:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > > > > > * attr-2.4.48-2 > > > * libattr-devel-2.4.48-2 > > > * libattr1-2.4.48-2 > > > > Does this release support listing Windows Alternate Data Streams, as the > > Linux > > release does with Tuxera NTFS-3G? > > libattr only supports reading and writing EAs, it has no capabilities to > read or write ADS. Ntfs-3g supports the streams_interface=windows > option which allows to read ADS. This also adds the ntfs.streams.list > EA to a file with named ADS. So attr/getfattr can only inspect the > ntfs.streams.list EA because the NTFS-3G driver creates them on the fly > when inspecting the file EAs. > > tl;dr: No, sorry. This could only work if Cygwin fakes the > ntfs.streams.list EA per file just like the NTFS-3G driver. > > Patches welcome. Looks like a nice little project if you want to get > your hands dirty. The functions to handle EAs are pretty > self-sufficiently implemented in ntea.cc. A little loop about > NtQueryInformationFile(FileStreamInformation) should do it.
Would that be something you'd like to work on, Brian? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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