On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Anders Musikka wrote: > cygwin allows a user to create a file called aux, like this: > > echo something >aux > > This file cannot be removed. (the filename is reserved under windows.) > > Cygwin should probably not allow the creation of a file with this name. > > /Anders Musikka
This came up on the list numerous times in the past, and, in fact, today. See the thread at <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00054.html>. Searching the archives for "aux" would also have helped. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
