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From: Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Make and volume labels
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:21:46 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii escreveu:
[snipped]

> This is due to a strange misfeature in the findfirst function: the
> call
> 
>      findfirst("c:/tmp/dos", &ff_blk, FA_LABEL);
> 
> always succeeds (returns zero) if the drive C:'s label is "dos".
> 
> A solution is to work around this problem inside `stat'.  A temporary
> work-around is not to use Make targets whose names are identical to
> the volume labels.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this subtle bug.

Eli,

Just to see if age is not teasing me: isn't this behaviour part of a 
class as when we face the same symptom with:

/temp/com1 or /temp/prn?

just more .019999...

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Cesar Rabak