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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:20:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32
From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> w=
rote:
> Is "a:" a valid filename in Windows?

No, ":" is not a valid char for a file name.

>=C2=A0Is 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).

Luca
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#path_names_and_namesp=
aces