Another Undocumented Feature

[prashant3535 at gmail.com (Prashant Mahajan)]

These are reserved words hence cannot be used.

Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
> CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
> LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
>
> Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example,
> NUL.txt is not recommended.
Quoting the File Names, Paths, and
Namespaces<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx>MSDN
article.


Although u can use cmd to create these folders ... can you store any files
or folders in them?

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com>wrote:

> Yep it was right up there with the ping of death "goodness".
>
> So while security has a long way to go on every OS, it's nice to see
> that forward progress* is being made.
>
> - Mick
>
> * Though sometimes it really feels like two steps forward three steps back!
>  ;-P
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Pat<nutjob.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This should be fixed for a while now
> >
> > Anyone remember the CON CON bug from 98/95
> >
> > if you told a machine to open c:\con\con\anything.fil it would blue
> screen
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2009/7/19 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>:
> > > > My XP is completely patched and it created a NULL folder.
> > >
> > > Just read the article, it is NUL, not NULL. I can't create NUL.
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > 2009/7/19 Tom Brennan - Personal <jinxpuppy at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > right click the windows desktop and create a folder named:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > CON or PRN or NULL
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <smirk>
> > > > >
> > > > > NULL works ok in a completely unpatched XP, the other two names are
> > > > > ignored.
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Prashant

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