Re: [PATCH] fat: kill reserved names

[Paul Rolland]

Hello,

> Since these names on old MSDOS is used as device, so, current fat
> driver doesn't allow a user to create those names.  But many OSes and
> even Windows can create those names actually, now.
> 
> This patch removes the reserved name check.
> 
> -/* MS-DOS "device special files" */
> -static const unsigned char *reserved_names[] = {
> -	"CON     ", "PRN     ", "NUL     ", "AUX     ",
> -	"LPT1    ", "LPT2    ", "LPT3    ", "LPT4    ",
> -	"COM1    ", "COM2    ", "COM3    ", "COM4    ",
> -	NULL

Please don't :

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\>mkdir LPT1
The directory name is invalid.

Windows doesn't want these !!!

Regards,
Paul

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