Re: NTFS-like streams?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 07:52:30 EST


> wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se wrote:
> > So instead of doing "cd file-with-forks"
> You don't CD to a file with streams, because it's not a directory.

But its not a file either, so if you can opendir it why cant you make it
your cwd. Lots of tools depend on that kind of behaviour since the
chdir/opendir(".") sequence is materially faster on some unixes.

So why disallow the chdir().

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