Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed

[Thomas Wolff]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> I'd suspect the support for ADSs in 1.5 was rather accidental anyway.
> POSIX programs certainly don't know about them, and you get the rather
> weird situation that "files" like foo:bar can be accessed but don't
> show up in the directory they're in. Hence I think the right way to
> access ADSs is via Windows tools. Unless there is a POSIXy way to
> represent them?
>   
I've only learned about this ADS stuff recently but yes, I think, simply 
using the "a:b" syntax (which is also used by Windows tools) and 
handling them as a virtual file is a quite obvious POSIX way to do it.
So if it worked in 1.5, whether accidental or not, I think it should 
continue to work in 1.7.
The loss of this feature may simply be a consequence of handling illegal 
filename characters via the Unicode private range,
so the resolution might be as easy as taking out ":" from this handling 
again, just a guess.

Thomas

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