/proc/registry write access

[Dave Korn]

On 30 March 2006 19:40, Christian Franke wrote:


> BTW: Cygwin simply discards everything following ':' in a path
> 
> $ touch 'foo:bar'
> $ ls
> foo

  Reckon that's odd?  Check *this*!


dk@rainbow /test/ads> ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+  2 dk Domain Users 0 Mar 30 20:01 .
drwx------+ 24 dk Domain Users 0 Mar 30 20:01 ..
dk@rainbow /test/ads> echo "Hello" > foo:bar
dk@rainbow /test/ads> echo "Goodbye" > foo:baz
dk@rainbow /test/ads> ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+  2 dk Domain Users 0 Mar 30 20:02 .
drwx------+ 24 dk Domain Users 0 Mar 30 20:01 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 dk Domain Users 0 Mar 30 20:02 foo
dk@rainbow /test/ads> cat foo:bar
Hello
dk@rainbow /test/ads> cat foo:baz
Goodbye
dk@rainbow /test/ads>


> Bug or feature?-)

  Feature.  And not a cygwin one, either.  Google for "NTFS ADS".

    cheers,
      DaveK
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