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| author |  Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2019-12-21 22:05:01 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-12-21 16:09:07 -0800 |
| commit | 4dc42c6c1867a52e22f1f04a1a247b5a7538b8af (patch) | |
| tree | 2198d9e1995d36e5448de2dcf2c9063563f03803 /Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.3.txt | |
| parent | mingw: short-circuit the conversion of `/dev/null` to UTF-16 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-4dc42c6c1867a52e22f1f04a1a247b5a7538b8af.tar.xz | |
mingw: refuse paths containing reserved names
There are a couple of reserved names that cannot be file names on
Windows, such as `AUX`, `NUL`, etc. For an almost complete list, see
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file
If one would try to create a directory named `NUL`, it would actually
"succeed", i.e. the call would return success, but nothing would be
created.
Worse, even adding a file extension to the reserved name does not make
it a valid file name. To understand the rationale behind that behavior,
see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=42073
Let's just disallow them all.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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