True case-sensitive filenames
Gerald S. Williams
gsw@agere.com
Tue Jan 21 17:14:00 GMT 2003
I wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
> > Interested in creating a Windows filesystem filter driver that would
> > permit files with the names com, aux, and prn too? ;-) OK, I know
> > that would be asking too much! :-)
>
> You can do this using the Native API (I just checked by
> creating "prn" and "PRN").
The following also works:
h = CreateFileW(L"\\\\?\\C:\\full\\path\\to\\prn",
GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_DELETE, NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS,
FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS, 0);
-Jerry
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