Daniel Gracia <lists.dani () electronicagracia ! com> wrote: This is more accurate than the thread title:
> fat32 stack on OBSD would allow to create illegal file entries for > Micro$oft machines, like: The naming of special devices is abstracted a little higher in the food chain: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#namespaces > Is this on purpose, or do you feel like applying a patch to throw an > error on these cases? Even if that was desirable how far do you go ... Read also? Rename? Remove? How would people examine Windows special device name issues under OpenBSD ... Extend it to any other naming isues that may arise when mounted under another operating system ... Disregarding any patent issues vis-a-vis FAT32 there's no reason not to use it and leave Windows out of the equation altogether, e.g. I want to make a file called prn on a FAT32 partition under OpenBSD ... Best wishes.
