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SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
jas88@cam.ac.uk (James Sutherland)  wrote on 14.08.00 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008140045080.2917-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> >
> > > > * these damned short names have a nasty habit of travelling when
> > > > you do operations on different names. And that's the thing you will
> > > > reproduce with that approach on NTFS.
> > >
> > > Nah. Let's just drop short filenames.
> >
> > Sorry? I do rename("foo","bar"); Suddenly foo:splat becomes bar:splat.
> > Which of them should I drop?
>
> What has that got to do with short filenames?
>
> There is a decision to be made: does renaming "foo" to "bar" rename
> "foo:splat" to "bar:splat". It would do under NT; OTOH, this isn't NT, and
> we cannot enforce this across all filesystems which may contain a
> "foo:splat". I'd go with "foo" != "foo:splat". Keep the two distinct.

Can't do that on NTFS. The two have only one name.

MfG Kai

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