Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > IIRC, Cygwwin implements: file:substream
>
> Is that implemented in the shell or in the Cygwwin libc emulation itself
> ?
I don't know, it may be a MS feature or a Cygwin feature.
> > This could in theory implemented in a compatible way.
>
> I think a better alternative may be to do something like the POSIX (was
> thet really POSIX or something else ?) version number scheme, e.g. file
> "xyz" with versions 1, 2 and 9 can be accessed via "xyz;1", "xyz;2" and
> "xyz;9"... substreams could then be addressed via
> "xyz;name_of_xattrfile" ...
But then you would not be able to tell whether "xyz;name_of_xattrfile"
would be a file name or referencing a substream.
Note that ';' is a valid character for filenames on Solaris.
J?rg
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