Re: NTFS-like streams?

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 04:37:27 EST


On 13 Aug 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article >Pine.LNX.4.10.10008130952490.11153-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>,
> James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >No need for a new call: just "ls file:*" to list the EA's attached to
> >"file". opendir() should certainly fail - it's not a directory in any way.
>
> The shell expands wildcards like "*" by using opendir() ...

Yes - on the DIRECTORY. NOT on an (unrelated, as far as the shell knows)
FILE! That would result in ENOTDIR...

James.

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