Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:03:14PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Thomas Wolff wrote:
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Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful
to become "reserved" for this purpose...
<end:of:rationale:for:weird:feature>
Sorry but I agree with Corinna. On linux/UNIX you can create a file
with a colon in it. We can now do this in Cygwin 1.7 and that's a good
thing. Complicating the path handling to deal specially with colons in
a filename doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Sorry that I take this up once more (after promising <end:of>), but I
had this additional idea after seeing your point about being strictly
consistent with the POSIX pathname namespace:
So what about using "/" as a delimiter? If "foo" is a file, "foo/bar" is
not a legal pathname in POSIX, so it could be used to access the "bar"
fork of "foo" without causing real harm. There might be stronger
objection to implicitly creating a fork with this syntax than to just
accessing it, which could be resolved with either a $CYGWIN-configurable
option or a mkfork command.
How could we possibly use '/' as a delimiter? Are you really advocating
that we treat every file as a potential directory? So every time
someone says "foo/bar" and "foo" is a file we try to open "foo:bar"?
And what happens when someone says "ls -l foo"? Should that work too?
I'm not really "advocating" it, it's just an idea how it could be
handled in case support *is* desired.
And yes, if someone *wants* access to this NTFS feature, why not this
way? It's a trade-off - weird (but acceptable) handling for a weird
feature.
Whether the default for ls is to show forks or not, might be
configurable again. If it does (maybe with -l or -a or -la), it could
look like:
... foo
... foo/bar
so it should not pretend a virtual directory structure here.
Thomas
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