On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 05:08 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Jan 3 22:40, NightStrike wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 15:51 <cyg...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > > > > > While I recognize that ADS is not supported by POSIX, I was wondering > > > what if any support for ADS might exist within Cygwin. > > > > > > The last time I looked into this was probably more than a decade ago > > > but I am seeing (unfortunately) more usage of ADS in the Windows > > > world, so I was wondering if there has been any effort to support in > > > Cygwin? > > > > > > -- > > > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > > > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > > > > FWIW, ntfs-3g under Linux maps these to extended attributes > > Using the EA API as ntfs-3g with the streams_interface=xattr option > seems like a nice way to allow reading and writing ADS on Cygwin as > well. > > Do you know how ntfs-3g performs the mapping? For instance, I guess > that ADS are stored in the user.* namespace? Does listxattr list ADS or > does it skip them? Stuff like that. > The ntfs.streams.list attribute contains the stream names, and there's a shortcut to access them by name with a colon. So if you have a stream named str and a file named f.txt, you could do 'cat f.txt:str'. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
