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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:02:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44205BC5.9040200@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442050C8.1020200@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

kernel32.dll's CreateFile() and other apis normally perform translation 
which includes special handling for dos device names including AUX.  You 
can bypass this by prefixing the absolute file name with the string 
"\\?\" and this will allow you to create a file named AUX.  It also 
allows you to reference file names with absolute paths greater than 255 
characters.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 21:40 VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? Dirk Reiners
2006-03-20 21:45 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-20 21:50   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21  7:57     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-21 17:41     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21 17:44       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 17:58         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21 18:07           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 18:11             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21 18:54               ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 19:06                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21 19:15                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-21 19:55                     ` Vadim Lobanov
2006-03-21 20:05                       ` Hua Zhong
2006-03-21 19:57                     ` John Stoffel
2006-03-21 20:02                     ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2006-03-21 21:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-22 19:39                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-22 21:59                           ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-22 22:22                             ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-23  1:15                               ` Phillip Susi
     [not found]                           ` <442286CD.6070200@lsrfire.ath.cx>
2006-03-23 14:56                             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-22 21:57                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-03-21 21:04                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-21  4:28   ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-21  5:24     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-20 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21  5:49   ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-03-21 11:46     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-21 15:06       ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-21 15:18     ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-21 17:43     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 22:07 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)

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