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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 16 04:19, aputerguy wrote:
> 
> I think it should still at least be documented as a change especially since a
> deliberate change.

It was never documented that streams are supported at all.  And the usage
of special DOS chars for filenames is documented:

http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html#ov-new1.7-file
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars


Corinna

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