Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> What do you mean with ${PWD} is "relative" ? I thought ${PWD} (and
> /bin/pwd) return the name of the file for which the XATTR files are ?
No, it simply contains "." (".." would refer to the file or dir).
While not implemented, the API would support extended
attributes of extended attributes, so $PWD above couldn't
always be an absolute path, I think.
> > It might be worth to look how
> > shells under Cygwin/MinGW/UWIN/etc. implement
> > multiple streams on NTFS and how they are mapped
> > when mounted on Unix (I understand that was one of
> > the reasons extended file attributes were introduced
> > in Solaris).
>
> Is that documented anywhere ?
If I remember correctly, it was an informal message in a
newsgroup or mailing list that it was for a (Sun internal?)
product similar to Samba. Can't find the message, though.
Markus
