This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:03:14PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>   
>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>     
>>>>> ...
>>> Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful 
>>> to become "reserved" for this purpose...
>>> <end:of:rationale:for:weird:feature>
>>>     
>>
>> Sorry but I agree with Corinna.  On linux/UNIX you can create a file
>> with a colon in it.  We can now do this in Cygwin 1.7 and that's a good
>> thing.  Complicating the path handling to deal specially with colons in
>> a filename doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
>>   
>Sorry that I take this up once more (after promising <end:of>), but I 
>had this additional idea after seeing your point about being strictly 
>consistent with the POSIX pathname namespace:
>
>So what about using "/" as a delimiter? If "foo" is a file, "foo/bar" is 
>not a legal pathname in POSIX, so it could be used to access the "bar" 
>fork of "foo" without causing real harm. There might be stronger 
>objection to implicitly creating a fork with this syntax than to just 
>accessing it, which could be resolved with either a $CYGWIN-configurable 
>option or a mkfork command.

How could we possibly use '/' as a delimiter?  Are you really advocating
that we treat every file as a potential directory?  So every time
someone says "foo/bar" and "foo" is a file we try to open "foo:bar"?
And what happens when someone says "ls -l foo"?  Should that work too?

cgf

--
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


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]