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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: NTFS features
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.202128.29426@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:21:28 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul09.235609.13142@news.mentorg.com> <13596@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Jul20.173150.20682@news.mentorg.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.173150.20682@news.mentorg.com> pbrooks@mentorg.com (Phil Brooks) writes:
- >
- >I don't want to make a big deal out of this or anything. I am just curious
- >as to the behavior of NTFS and would like to find out exactly what sort of
- >POSIX compliance Microsoft is claiming. I don't really care much for the
- >ability to create a file named '\' or ' ' or '<carrige return>' etc, but it
- >appears that POSIX specifies that they indeed are legitimate filenames.
- >
- >Here are some of the pertinent statements from Posix 1003.1-1990 from my copy:
-
- We are claiming (and delivering) POSIX 1003.1 compliance with NTFS & the
- POSIX subsystem in Windows NT
-
- We are therefore conforming with any POSIX 1003.1 section you quote
- as mandatory. I'm no POSIX expert - if you're disputing our compliance
- and could give details, then I'll take that to our POSIX developers, but
- otherwise please understand that we understand what compliance is! -- Alistair
-