From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: FW: Special Filenames AUX, CON, etc. 11 Apr 1998 01:59:17 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD6548.A29CAEF0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos> Cc: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" Any ideas? It seems reasonable to me... ---------- From: Spencer Low Sent: суббота, 11 апреля 1998 г. 6:30 To: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru Subject: Special Filenames AUX, CON, etc. I saw some messages on the gnu-win32 mailing list about how Windows NT doesn't have the capability to create/open files with special names (or containing special names) like AUX. I was really surprised to see that gnu-win32 doesn't properly open files with these funny names when the fix is quite easy. To create/open a file with a special name, reference it like: \\?\C:\MyDirectory\aux instead of C:\MyDirectory\aux I tried this with the gnu-win32 tools and I was able to manipulate files with special names with no problems. [The original purpose of the \\?\{FullPath} syntax seems to be a mechanism to get NT to recognize a full path longer than 255 characters] I'm not subscribed to the mailing list and I don't have time to submit a patch, but I thought you may be able to use this info to patch gnu-win32 if you have the time and energy. Thanks, Spencer [please feel free to forward this along] -- Spencer Low