From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108061346.AA17499@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 /dev/null permission query
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:46:36 -0500 (CDT)
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> Does "ls -l NUL" say that it's a character device?

C:\djgpp>ls -l nul
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root            0 Jan  1  1980 nul

C:\djgpp>set lfn=n

C:\djgpp>ls -l nul
crw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root       0,   0 Aug  6 08:48 nul

C:\djgpp>touch a.a

C:\djgpp>set lfn=

C:\djgpp>touch a.a
c:/djgpp/bin/touch: a.a: Input or output error (EIO)


> This might mean we need an exhaustive sweep of all the handle-related
> DOS calls, to see whether more of them are broken on W2K.  In
> particular, those Int 21h file-related functions used by the library
> should be all checked.

Agreed.  I'm betting that some of the handle related functions will
require the LFN versions instead of the old versions when working on
LFN opened handles.