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Subject: RE: aux.c special name?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:38:28 -0800
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From: "Stephan Mueller" <smueller AT microsoft DOT com>
To: "Roland Glenn McIntosh" <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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This is a known Windows goofiness that dates back to when 8.3 filenames
freely roamed the earth.  The problem is that AUX: is a device name.
I'm sure aux.c is disallowed for backwards compatibility reasons, but
compatibility with what, at this point, who can say?  You probably will
have a hard time with other filenames like lpt1.c as well.  There's
syntax involving \\?\ as prefix that may help.  I can't say for sure,
but strongly suspect a search of the mailing list archives might be
revealing.

stephan();


-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Glenn McIntosh [mailto:roland AT steeltorch DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:27 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: aux.c special name?


I can't seem to edit any files named "aux.c" .  Why is this happening to
me? Steps to reproduce:

echo "weidness" > aux.c
vi aux.c   --> "aux.c is not a file"

similar results with other editors / operations.
the "file" command reports it as character special device?
This is weird and poses difficulty porting packages that have an aux.c
file.

-Roland

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   Cygwin DLL version info:
       dll major: 1003
       dll minor: 3
       dll epoch: 19
       dll bad signal mask: 19005
       dll old termios: 5
       dll malloc env: 28
       api major: 0
       api minor: 46
       shared data: 3
       dll identifier: cygwin1
       mount registry: 2
       cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
       cygwin registry name: Cygwin
       program options name: Program Options
       cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
       cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
       cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
       cygdrive default prefix:
       build date: Wed Sep 12 23:54:31 EDT 2001
       shared id: cygwin1S3


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