Re: NTFS-like streams?

From: Mo McKinlay (mmckinlay@gnu.org)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 20:39:44 EST

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Today, Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk) wrote:

# The current kernel already implements that.
#
# If an fs object provides ->lookup(), you can opendir() it. But you
# can't chdir() or even fchdir() into it unless it has type S_IFDIR. This
# goes back to at least 2.2.

All rather academic, though - directories can have named streams as well
as files (on NTFS, at least).

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