Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CE49442.8050409@elegant.nl> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:25:22 +0200 From: Gilgamesh Nootebos Reply-To: cygwin Organization: The Elegant Group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: nl, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: umount doesn't umount References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Collins wrote: > > ':'s on NTFS allow alternate streams. Read up on that before > speculating, and please remember that a single test case (your local > test) only shows the results for that exact configuration. > I just refreshed my memory with http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fsys_7qwj.asp and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fsys_5okz.asp which confirmed what I suspected and you say: NTFS might allow it but Windows doesn't. That is why I mentioned my systems specification with the testcase. I just forgot to say it was really NTFS and not FAT32 that's used. Gilgamesh -- Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development) @: Gilgamesh.Nootebos@elegant.nl T: +31 36 54 77 100 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/