Re: NTFS-like streams?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 23:27:43 EST


On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote:

>
> # > On Windows 2000, you can create an attribute with any name and as many
> # > of them as you want. When you open the file, you access the attribute
> #
> # "You"? What does it mean on multi-user OS?
>
> I hate to tell you, but Windows 2000 IS multi-user. It may not do it
> particularly well in some situations, but it's a multi-user OS
> nevertheless.

That's wonderful. So let me do substitution:

What does "you" mean (in context of system files) on multi-user OS, in
particular on Windows 2000?

BTW, I suspect that a lot of the userland stuff there had been written in
implicit assumption that it is single-user system.

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