Re: annoying bug in Windows XP

[Jerome Athias <jerome.athias () free fr>]

Hi,

maybe something similar to this:

http://seclists.org/lists/vuln-dev/2005/Feb/0007.html

Frank Dietrich wrote:

> Hi to all readers,
>
> this day I found a annoying misbehavior in Windows XP professional
> with SP2. 
>
> I had a directory with some Java sources (*.java) and some backup
> files (*.jav). Because I din't longer need the backup files I would
> delete them with 'del *.jav'. But this command also delete all the
> source files. #§%*. The last backup was 4 hours ago. :-/
>
> So I tried what happen and the result is the command above checks
> only the first three chars from the extension (DOS is alive).
>
> Here is how you can reproduce it:
>
> mkdir testbug
> cd testbug
> rem.>file1.jav
> rem.>file2.java
> rem.>file3.javas
> del *.jav
>
> All three files are deleted. Is this a known bug or a unknown feature?
>
> Frank
>

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