Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:20:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Anders Musikka cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: file called aux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Anders Musikka wrote: > cygwin allows a user to create a file called aux, like this: > > echo something >aux > > This file cannot be removed. (the filename is reserved under windows.) > > Cygwin should probably not allow the creation of a file with this name. > > /Anders Musikka This came up on the list numerous times in the past, and, in fact, today. See the thread at . Searching the archives for "aux" would also have helped. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/