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According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows
> Vista developer forum:
> 
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1

Oh. My.  Well, as I maintain coreutils, and don't have access to Vista, I
will have a very tough time testing any "workarounds" to this blatant bug.
 Deciding that a file is a "security risk" purely on its metadata is
absolutely wrong - it is the contents that matter, and not the file name.

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