On 8/16/07, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > Unix already has this, and their called extended attributes, and I
> > hate them with a burning passion.  Rsync, cp, any tool that
> > manipulates files (tar for example) has to be able to capture this
> > data, and just reading the file won't do it anymore.
> >
> > Oh and to make things more "fun" FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X at least
> > have different ways of dealing with them, and max size limits etc.
>
> you forgot NTFS's version
>
> http://www.wikistc.org/wiki/Alternate_data_streams
>
> echo plain > t.xt
> echo hidden > t.txt:hidden.txt
>
> %type t.txt
> plain
> % type t.txt:hidden.txt
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> % notepad t.txt:hidden.txt
> hidden


So there we have it... all the major OSes I know of have turned files into
directories already... *sigh*