Hi,
There seems to a problem on how the data streams are handled in Cygwin.
Cygwin is treating a data stream as a file which should not be the case.
Following are the steps followed to create and access a data stream using
cygwin shell in Windows environment.
Sh-3.1$ echo "data1" > test00
Sh-3.1$ echo "data1" > test00:stream
Now test00 is a file and test00:stream is a data stream associated with
the file test00
When we do an "ls" at this path we are able to see only test00 file and
not the stream test00:stream -> this functionality is OK as streams cannot be
locked and also it is not a file
In one of the perl scripts when we did a file test for both "test00" and
"test00:stream" ,both succeeded even though "test00:stream" is not a file
The network traces of the shell command "test -f test00:stream" showed
that Cygwin opens the file "test00:stream" instead of sending a server reply
"NO file found"
So a patch has to be applied to resolve this issue. Can you please
provide us with a patch so that the data streams are handled as expected .
Thanks and Regards,
Karthik
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