fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Gracia
Hit an interoperatibility issue today: fat32 stack on OBSD would allow to create illegal file entries for Micro$oft machines, like: CON PRN AUX CLOCK$ NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 LPT4 LPT5 LPT6 LPT7 LPT8 LPT9 and with illegal chars like '?'. Is this on

Re: fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Seems similar to this (very old) explanation http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Daniel Gracia lists.d...@electronicagracia.com wrote: Hit an interoperatibility issue today: fat32 stack on OBSD would allow to create illegal file entries for

Re: fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Gracia
Yep! That's it, and I totally agree with the discusion there but, as far as msdosfs is in OpenBSD for the very reason of portability -and now I'm supposing-, I wonder if this would be an any welcomed patch. Anyway, I'm not dying for it... It's working as is for me :D El 01/08/2011 14:08,

Re: fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:04:08 +0200, Daniel Gracia lists.d...@electronicagracia.com a icrit : Yep! That's it, and I totally agree with the discusion there but, as far as msdosfs is in OpenBSD for the very reason of portability -and now I'm supposing-, I wonder if this would be an any welcomed

Re: fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread David Walker
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:

Re: fat32 interoperatibility issue

2011-08-01 Thread Ted Unangst
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