Support for ADS (Alternate Data Streams)

[NightStrike]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 15:51 <cygwin@kosowsky.org> wrote:

> While I recognize that ADS is not supported by POSIX, I was wondering
> what if any support for ADS might exist within Cygwin.
>
> The last time I looked into this was probably more than a decade ago
> but I am seeing (unfortunately) more usage of ADS in the Windows
> world, so I was wondering if there has been any effort to support in
> Cygwin?
>
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FWIW, ntfs-3g under Linux maps these to extended attributes