From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751766AbWCUUIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:08:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751750AbWCUUIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:08:38 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.199]:30880 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751759AbWCUUIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:08:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to:thread-index:x-mimeole; b=P+kroTxsK+UFpnnflrhTMnBJ8OULvNk0EW7gxPosgXkxZZwUCAz1mROy+ddD185Dy1mnfJ3F8VgLki5njsRXDSxIyNBejGeiZyC7IEOT7/blSODo1Bql0bWpmoLLw/qMas8GXN2gDl21Wi+o+QneBCG0MlNv08HC/V6rgbNGw78= From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Vadim Lobanov'" , "'H. Peter Anvin'" Cc: "'Jan Engelhardt'" , Subject: RE: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:05:55 -0800 Message-ID: <000301c64d22$dd94ef70$853d010a@nuitysystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcZNIjDTe14LBprhQyq7qRCgxxzPVwAAJSOA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It's more "treating aux.* the same way as aux". It doesn't fail per se. If you do "echo test >con.h", it will print to the screen. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vadim Lobanov > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:55 AM > To: H. Peter Anvin > Cc: Jan Engelhardt; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >>>>You're confusing characters which aren't legal *VFAT* names which > those > > >>>>which > > >>>>aren't legal *FAT* (8.3) names. > > >>> > > >>>Could you please name an illegal FAT name being legal VFAT name? > > >> > > >>"Green Furry Submarine" > > >> > > > > > > Ah well. But aux.h is also forbidden under VFAT, is not it? Or no, > because > > > it's "just" an 8.3 name? > > > > > > > It probably depends on how picky you want to be. As far as I know, even > > NT will recognize a character device name without leaving \DEV\, even > > though \DEV\ has been the "official" device prefix since DOS 2.0. > > > > Probably it would be worth trying to create "aux.h" under XP and see > > what happens. Unfortunately I don't have a 'doze system handy at the > > moment. > > Fails silently. > > > -hpa > > > > - > > Vadim Lobanov > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/