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

[Thomas Wolff]

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.

Thomas

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