Re: VFAT Naming Bugs

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:15:53 -0700 (PDT)

Jeff Merkey <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> writes:
> 1. The names PIPE, $CLOCK, and NETQ are reserved as special device file
> names for some versions of DOS and Win95 and can get folks into trouble
> if you allow linux to create these names.

You can create CLOCK$ and NETQ on Windows NT, so by your definition, folks
can get into trouble from NT to. Maybe we should just make it illegal
to write any filename to the vfat filesystem and make it safe for everyone.

- Gordon

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