On 8/25/16, 7:14 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >On 8/25/2016 11:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Granted, it *could* be used by Cygwin on NTFS to indicate Cygwin's own >> implementations of AF_LOCAL sockets or fifos. Or even for symlinks. >> But that would only introduce YA symlink type which would be unusable >> from non-Cygwin applications. > >Correct. > >With its own reparse tag Cygwin could store exactly the same metadata it >stores today in the data stream of the .lnk file as reparse tag data. >The benefit of applying a reparse tag is that the .lnk will no longer be >confused for a regular file. On file systems that do not support >reparse points it can continue to store the data in the data stream.
I agree with Jeffrey, and I did think of this as a potential solution for FUSE for Cygwin (and perhaps Cygwin itself). But since I learned about the NFS reparse points I find them a very good solution, especially because they indicate that someone in Microsoft has already thought about this problem. Bill
