On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >There are two possible interpretations here. One is that Reini is >proposing to have Cygwin tools always list alternate streams, in which >case you're correct, and it's unrelated to the thread. Another is that >colons in filenames on certain Cygwin mounts should not represent >alternate streams, but should be different files altogether, and thus >should be listed normally. > >That said, I think Reini's wording implies your interpretation, and thus >his suggestion should be in a different thread.
There really isn't much that we can do with colons, AFAICT. We certainly can't disallow them in the common case and I don't think there is any FindFirstFile/FindNextFile type API which allows us to easily expose them. Although I can see that it would be nice to have a unifying philosophy here I think the strange behavior of a foo:bar on an NTFS file system is not something that we should worry about right now. cgf