Re: [PATCH] fat: kill reserved names

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Paul Rolland wrote:

> 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

Well somebody else showed that it's the API that doesn't want
those, not the file-system. So, if you have a file called
AUX and you click on it, it will hang the machine until you
Ctrl-Alr-Del to the Task manager and kill the task. This
is supposed to be okay.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.42 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
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