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Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars
On Dec 12 08:17, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > but I don't think we should ever go down the path of blithely creating files
> > with special characters by default.
>
> Now, now... what better way to embrace WJM at its finest than for Cygwin
> to randomly and inexplicably litter stray "CON" or "you can't delete me
> . . . " files all over the place that steadfastly refuse to be deleted
> by any windows tools?
I tried this when I introduced the usage of NtCreateFile, but for some
reason other developers catched it and actually dared to FIX it. May
a thousand hippos fall on them!
Corinna
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