On 2019-01-08 04:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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?
Not anything I really knew or cared about, except as a potential attack vector or Windows curiosity. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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
