Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932070AbWCVV7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:59:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932077AbWCVV7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:59:38 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:28480 "EHLO iradimed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932070AbWCVV7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:59:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4421C8C9.10007@cfl.rr.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:59:37 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OGAWA Hirofumi CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? References: <1142890822.5007.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060320134533.febb0155.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44203B86.5000003@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <87y7z2l159.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2006 21:59:48.0600 (UTC) FILETIME=[F00AAF80:01C64DFB] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.52.1006-14340.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--3.700000-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 19 It appears to simply be stored as "aux" under windows. The filesystem itself has no reserved names. The handling of AUX and CON and friends is just special case handling done at the win32 api level. OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Could you/anyone check what shortname is used for "AUX" if it is created > in cmd.exe? > > Windows may be storing it as shortname, because it seems to be using > completely separated namespace for devices (I guessed from result of > google). > > Thanks. - 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/