RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
This is not funny at all since Windows viruses often use these reserved DOS devices to hide themselves, see the following: http://www.seifried.org/security/advisories/kssa-010.html Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/156 - Release Date: 11/2/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
On 03/11/05 05:31 +0200, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... Not funny. Just as it is not funny that you cannot name a variable int int in a C program. Con is a reserved name for the console device in dos. There is no folder namespace for device files in dos like there is in *nix with the dev directory. Design oversight? Probably. Funny? No, and I knew about this 10 years ago so it's not true that someone just discovered it. Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store their porn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
--On Wednesday, November 02, 2005 21:17:27 -0700 Moffatt, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 I have seen folders with those names. The taggers like to use them when they break in to Windoze boxes, because they're a PITA to get rid of, unless you know how. It's just not possible to create folders with those names the normal way. *Anything* is possible on *any* OS if you know what you're doing and how to get around the restrictions that are in place. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
On 3/11/2005 2:31 PM, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! I find it hard no one at Microsoft could answer why that was the case. That harks back to the DOS days, where con used to refer to the the console (ala STDIN). You'd be able to create a text file containing what you typed by doing: copy con file.txt This still works today on Windows XP. And yes, this was completely and utterly offtopic. -Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
On 11/3/05, Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] con is the name of a device in windoze. Is this really funny? There are lots of other legacy names, like prn, lpt, etc... Let's laugh at each and every one of them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... It's confirmed that it is correct on Windows XP with SP2 installed. Amazing. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... It's confirmed that it is correct on Windows XP with SP2 installed. Amazing. Chris Just found a reference link to this: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/e n-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-u s/prkc_fil_rbrx.asp Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
Not surprising. Gates and Microsoft didn't develop DOS. They bought it. On Nov 2, 2005, at 20:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:43699b10336331518010033! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
