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SubjectRe: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'?
I disagree with this philosophy seeing as how it is possible to create 
these files from within windows itself:

echo foo > \\?\c:\aux.h
dir *.h
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F064-30D6

Directory of C:\

03/21/2006 10:07a 6 aux.h
1 File(s) 6 bytes
0 Dir(s) 4,584,951,808 bytes free

Creates a file named aux.h in c:\ just fine. Under win2k at least,
explorer only hangs when I try to click on the file. Explorer has
always done really stupid things like this though. I remember when 95
first came out we could create files with high ascii names on the server
like ascii 255, and explorer would happily render it as an underscore
(_), but could not open it or delete it because it was actually trying
to access a directory named "_" rather than ascii 255.

Just because explorer/the win32 api is stupid doesn't mean linux should
be too.

Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
>> It seems only fair to me to not allow creating these files under Linux
>> either, to avoid problems when booting back to Dos/Windows.
> This is true. smbfs, OTOH, has no such checks, so creating aux.h on an smb share is one easy way to DoS
> all WinXP machines using(browsing) this share. Explorer hangs on reading directory with this file.
>>
>> Jan Engelhardt
>

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