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>> "AUX" is (was) a reserved "filename" in DOS. The Linux MS-DOS >> filesystem preserves (protects) that. The extension part does not >> matter; it only checks the first 8 characters of the filename. >> You'll need to use a different filesystem or filename... > >But this is VFAT, not FAT. It should probably take the reserved name >and mangle it. > NAK. How much more names will you be going to mangle because of FAT character restrictions? (< and > are one of the chars not allowed in FAT.) >There should be more than that. At the very least there is "CLOCK$" >(arguably anything with $), "MSCD001" (and probably more than 001), as >well as "COM5".."COM8". > Objection too. You can create these files without a problem within Win98, so it shall remain possible under Linux too. Jan Engelhardt -- | Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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