Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751499AbWCUR6N (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:58:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751485AbWCUR6N (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:58:13 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:52873 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499AbWCUR6M (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:58:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:58:10 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? In-Reply-To: <44203B86.5000003@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <1142890822.5007.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060320134533.febb0155.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44203B86.5000003@zytor.com> 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: 838 Lines: 24 >> 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.) > > Uhm... that's what VFAT *does*... > Hm. How do I check? Under a DOS shell, echo bla >"illegal>name" won't work, and creating a new empty dummy text file within Windows Explorer with this illegal>name won't work either. (http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/illegal_filename.jpg) Did I miss some magic WINAPI function that does allow it implicitly by mangling the name? 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/