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Fun facts: The reserved names are things like "COM" and "LPT" followed by a digit... or at least, a thing that Unicode recognises as a digit, so "COM²" is just
by thristian 8y ago
Fun facts:
The reserved names are things like "COM" and "LPT" followed by a digit... or at least, a thing that Unicode recognises as a digit, so "COM²" is just as broken as "COM2".
This device remapping is done in the Win32 layer, not the NT kernel, so you can often use "verbatim path syntax" to bypass these hacks. So "C:\Temp\COM2.TXT" is a magic device, but "\\?\C:\Temp\COM2.TXT" is an ordinary file you can read or write without issue... until you try and look into C:\Temp with a program that doesn't use verbatim paths like Windows Explorer, and all hell breaks loose.
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- sundarurfriend 8y ago