> What if you copy both 'filename' and 'filename:ext' onto the same fs?
> Do they get combined into one file?

ON Ext2, you get two files. On NTFS, you get one file, and a stream on that
file.

> Any semantics by which 'filename:stream' and 'filename' refer to the
> same file would be b0rken.  If instead you use 'filename/stream'

That does not allow streams on directories, otherwise I agree.

-M



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