Markus Gyger wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > http://www.blastwave.org/~mgyger/ast.diff.gz is the lastest patch, right?
> 
> Yes, but it's out-of-date and it was just an idea how to
> do it (however the binary on blastwave implements it).
> Some things are maybe a bit unexpected; like ".." can
> be a file and the path in $PWD is relative. There might
> be better approaches...

What do you mean with ${PWD} is "relative" ? I thought ${PWD} (and
/bin/pwd) return the name of the file for which the XATTR files are ?

> > Is there any other shell which supports "cd -@" ?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of... It might be worth to look how
> shells under Cygwin/MinGW/UWIN/etc. implement
> multiple streams on NTFS and how they are mapped
> when mounted on Unix (I understand that was one of
> the reasons extended file attributes were introduced
> in Solaris).

Is that documented anywhere ?

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Bye,
Roland

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