Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 21 07:47:00 GMT 2004


On Apr 20 16:59, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Well, actually, I've always wondered -- what makes NTEA NT-specific?  For

It isn't.  It's OS/2 specific.  NT allows extended attributes for
OS/2 compatibility in the first place.

> the most part, all NTEA does is store some information (e.g., permissions,
> and, of late, owner) in a special file in the root directory.  The only

Only on FAT.  NTFS stores them in a file stream (as HPFS?).


Corinna

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