On Mon, Aug 01, 2011, Daniel Gracia wrote:
> Hit an interoperatibility issue today:
> 
> fat32 stack on OBSD would allow to create illegal file entries for
> Micro$oft machines, like:
> 
> CON

> Is this on purpose, or do you feel like applying a patch to throw an
> error on these cases?

The special device names are not illegal in the filesystem.  You can
create such files on Windows, even, if you use UNC paths.  Nothing
broken, nothing to fix.

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