Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030426AbWCTVqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:46:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964990AbWCTVqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:46:34 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:20382 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964989AbWCTVqd (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:46:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:46:31 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Dirk Reiners cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? In-Reply-To: <1142890822.5007.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1142890822.5007.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 31 > Hi everybody, > >while trying to back up a couple Linux directories to a FAT disk I ran >into a weird situation: I can't create a file called aux.h on the FAT >system! > On DOS et al, there are a number of special filenames, such as com1: com2: (and so on) lpt1: lpt2: (and so on) con: aux nul (Try `dir >nul`, it's equivalent to unix's `ls -l >/dev/null` -- aux is the auxiliary port, whatever that is) It seems only fair to me to not allow creating these files under Linux either, to avoid problems when booting back to Dos/Windows. 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/