On Tuesday 31 August 2004 21.38, Spam wrote: > > Salut, > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Spam wrote: > >> How are things done on Windows platforms when there are files and > >> directories with the same name? In Unix that is imposible. How does > >> it work for environments like Cygwin etc? What happen to tools > >> that run in them? > > > > In NTFS it's illegal IIRC. At least the fs correction utilities > > complain about a block being assigned to two files. > > I meant a file and a directory with the same name, not two files > with the same name :) subtle but important difference. > > ie, you can have a file named "foo" and a directory named "foo" and > they won't collide.
You can't have a file and a directory with the same name in W*. Alternative data streams don't appear in a normal directory. You need special API:s and tools to see them. If you know the name of and ADS you can however access them with standard tools, including cygwin. echo foo >a.txt echo bar >a.txt:b.txt You can also have ADS's on directories. Not sure how Reiserfs4 does that. mkdir foo echo bar >foo:a.txt -- robin