Why ":" is not allowed in file names?

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 04:23, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> Chere Zhou wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Yes, I knew that. It suggests that Chere wants to implement Alternate
> > > Data Streams ... :-)
> > 
> > What's the reason that Alternate Data Stream is not implemented?
> 
> Where would you put them?
> 
> Support for multiple streams must exist within the native filesystem on the
> server.

well we could do that as hack in samba even without file system stream,
but that would be too ugly even for samba :-)

Simo.

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