From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98
17 Sep 1998 17:48:48 -0700
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>,
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:04:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >- Create device entries with mknod(1) like symlinks, containing
> >
> >    !<device>major,minor,[bcp]
> 
> Actually, I'd rather not use the current symlink route.  On Windows NT
> NTFS partitions we could use extended attributes.  On Windows 9[58] we
> could possibly have an "index file" in each directory which supplied
> things like UNIX permissions and device types.  That would work for
> symlinks, too.

Why do you want to hide the information so deep in the NT soup,
that you need a second method for non-NTFS? The current symlinks
doesn't hide any information, and the method is strictly, both
benefits of UNIX. Moreover, I think, you won't have time saving
effects, because you will anyway have to call a CreateFile() and
read the information (with one ReadFile against minimum three
BackupRead).

Corinna