Francky Leyn scripsit: > I have DVD with a file system on. At some place the files aux.c, > aux.h and aux.pg are present. If you try to cp, find, tar or whatever, > the command "hangs". I thought: well perhaps those files are corrupt > on the DVD. I will try a testcase. I issue touch aux.c at a place on > the C:\. What do I get? touch: closing `aux.c': Bad file descriptor. > Can someone explain me what I encounter here?
The filenames aux, com1, com2, com3, con, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, nul, and prn are reserved by Windows. In DOS days, they were the names of devices; you can still say "copy foo con" to the DOS shells and the contents of foo will be displayed in the shell window. The pathname of such a file and any extension applied to it are completely ignored. So you cannot create files named aux.c or even foo/bar/aux.c. There is no work-around for this. Similarly, the characters ?, ", <, >, *, |, and : cannot be used in Windows filenames or directory names. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
