Messages in this thread | | | Date | 14 Aug 2000 23:31:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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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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