Added OS/2 EA's to smbd

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Wed Mar 31 05:15:44 GMT 2004


On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Tim Potter wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:29:18PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > If you create a file with EA's on a NTFS filesystem and then copy it
> > onto the smbd filesystem the EA's don't get copied by the "copy"
> > command, or by an explorer copy, so I'm guessing they're completely
> > ignored by Win32.
> 
> Doesn't Word use EAs to set author information and other stuff that
> appears when you do right click properties on a file?  Or am I getting
> confused with something else?

Word will use named data streams if the file system supports them.

Regards
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