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justeleblanc | 2 years ago

Look, I just created a file named "aux.rs" on my Windows machine. It's not true.

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franga2000|2 years ago

I've seen this plenty of times, but maybe if was fixed in the last year or so. My issue was when trying to delete a Linux source tree that was git cloned on Linux onto a flash drive. Maybe the filesystem had something to do with it, but it was entirely impossible to delete it using any tool I know of in Windows.

ygra|2 years ago

I think they have changed it so that you can by now create files with forbidden names and an extension. But that's a somewhat recent change.

Also you could always create such names with the right APIs, so one application could create such files, but another can't delete them or open them.

igorv|2 years ago

Same. It's definitely not true