Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? | | Date | 11 Aug 2000 20:22:43 GMT |
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In article >Pine.LNX.4.10.10008111513300.1913-100000@aviro.devel.redhat.com>, Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >> i.e. The NTFS method is filename:attribute_name. This means folks just >> append :attr_name to the filename to tell the underlying FS to open an >> alernate attribute file. > > If you want to see some seriously scary code - look at the HFS >handling of that stuff. And no, I would not bet a dime that it's done >correctly. The main problem is that rename(), unlink(), etc. are too >fine-grained for such beasts.
Can't you define such files as directories ? "ls" would show them as plain files, open() would open ("file/data"), you could chdir() into them and stat() would return S_ISMULTI if the file has more than one fork so that tar and cp work correctly.
Mike.
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