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    > Spam <spam@tnonline.net> 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


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