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Subject:	Re: perl - finding files that don't exist?
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Paul Mallas wrote:
> I am not sure where this issue should sits - is it a perl problem or a 
> cygwin problem or windows?  Not sure - but I have noticed just after 
> cygwin upgrade.
> 
> Perl seems to be finding files that don't exist:
> 
> $ ls -a
> ./  ../  Babel.pm
> 
> $ perl -e 'print (-f "./PRN.pm")'
> 1
> 
> $ perl -e 'print (-e "./PRN.pm")'
> 1
> 
> $ perl -e 'print (-e "./PR.pm")'
> 
> 
> PRN.pm is reserved device in windows.  You can't create a file with this 
> name in WinXP.  But perl says the file exists now and it did not seem to 
> exhibit this behaviour before.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318040>

Cygwin has always recognized these devices because the underlying Windows
APIs do.  Try "ls PRN" anywhere.


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