From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: RE: FW: Special Filenames AUX, CON, etc.
12 Apr 1998 15:59:42 -0700
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To: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru>
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:

> Christopher G. Faylor wrote:
> > I wonder if opening the files in "posix mode" works around this, too.
> > 
> 
> Opening a file in posix mode is just NtCreateFile() (ZwCreateFile()) with OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE in object attribute structure unset.

Hmm.  Have you actually managed to trace the system call?  I don't have
a debugger which allows that although I know that there are such things
available.