From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268977AbUHaTPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:15:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268849AbUHaTMy (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:12:54 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:32917 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268860AbUHaTLN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:11:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:08:14 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Spam Cc: V13 , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Message-ID: <20040831190814.GA15493@thundrix.ch> References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> <200408312055.56335.v13@priest.com> <36793180.20040831201736@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36793180.20040831201736@tnonline.net> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Salut, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Spam wrote: > How are things done on Windows platforms when there are files and > directories with the same name? In Unix that is imposible. How does > it work for environments like Cygwin etc? What happen to tools > that run in them? In NTFS it's illegal IIRC. At least the fs correction utilities complain about a block being assigned to two files. Same with HFS+. Sometimes there seem to be several things with the same name. But that's because of hidden extensions (.lnk for example). I'm talking out of the book here, maybe the real-world implementations of Windows are different. I can't tell, I only used Windows once to ssh into a screwed-up router. Tonnerre --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNMyd/4bL7ovhw40RAiIcAJ9p8jLgJeKhIFuWqVmJ/ShSiz6L+ACgwTVN N/3DwpJuNBNtx2Sjb9xdZ8A= =ER/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--