Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts

[Reini Urban]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>There are two possible interpretations here.  One is that Reini is
>>proposing to have Cygwin tools always list alternate streams, in which
>>case you're correct, and it's unrelated to the thread.  Another is that
>>colons in filenames on certain Cygwin mounts should not represent
>>alternate streams, but should be different files altogether, and thus
>>should be listed normally.
>>
>>That said, I think Reini's wording implies your interpretation, and thus
>>his suggestion should be in a different thread.
> 
> There really isn't much that we can do with colons, AFAICT.  We
> certainly can't disallow them in the common case and I don't think there
> is any FindFirstFile/FindNextFile type API which allows us to easily
> expose them.
> 
> Although I can see that it would be nice to have a unifying philosophy here
> I think the strange behavior of a foo:bar on an NTFS file system is not
> something that we should worry about right now.

Agreed.
Some different patch for fhandler_disk_file::readdir() on managed mounts
later, when the need arises.
readdir() performance will be seriously affected, having to look in all 
regular files for such attached ADS streams.
-- 
Reini Urban