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From: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: True case-sensitive filenames
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:14:02 -0500
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I wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
> > Interested in creating a Windows filesystem filter driver that would 
> > permit files with the names com, aux, and prn too? ;-)  OK, I know
> > that would be asking too much! :-)
> 
> You can do this using the Native API (I just checked by
> creating "prn" and "PRN").

The following also works:

    h = CreateFileW(L"\\\\?\\C:\\full\\path\\to\\prn",
        GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_DELETE, NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS,
        FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS, 0);

-Jerry