> Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One suggestion is missed. It is to provide system calls for copy. >> That would also solve the problem. > No, it would not. If you read the POSIX.1 specification for cp > carefully <http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html>, you will > notice that the process for copying a regular file is carefully > standardized. A POSIX.1-conforming cp implementation would not > be allowed to copy additional streams, unless either additional > options are given or the type of the file being copied is other > than S_IFREG. And cp is just one example of a standardized file > handling program. It would solve the problem in Linux. However, it may not be POSIX.1 compatible. On the other hand I read that NTFS 5.0 is POSIX.1 compliant - and Windows uses copy system call. NTFS also has streams support using special character in the file names to select the streams. Surely there must be a solution in Linux that will allow things like streams and meta-data(meta-streams) be visible to the user. ~S > Gunnar
