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Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>   
>> Is "a:" a valid filename in Windows?
>>     
>
> No, ":" is not a valid char for a file name.
>
>   
>>  Is there a way in Windows to detect
>> that a given file is actually a physical device?
>>     
>
> : is used for delimiting the mount point; actually the internals are a
> bit more complicated (see [1]), stuff like A: or C: are reserved
> special names, the "real" device names are \\.\A: or \\.\C: (where
> \\.\ is the namespace used for devices).
>   

Looks like the code is doing the right thing.  Someone running windows 
is going to have to debug this because a: should be transformed to 
\\.\a: as far as I can read the code.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Luca
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#path_names_and_namespaces
>
>
>