Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0400, David Fritz wrote: > >I don't how much you want to rely on undocumented features, but ntdll.dll > >exports a function called RtlIsDosDeviceName_U(). The WINE implementation > >has the following to say about it: > > > > > >/*********************************************************************** > > * RtlIsDosDeviceName_U (NTDLL.@) > > * > > * Check if the given DOS path contains a DOS device name. > > * > > * Returns the length of the device name in the low word and its > > * position in the high word (both in bytes, not WCHARs), or 0 if no > > * device name is found. > > */ > >ULONG WINAPI RtlIsDosDeviceName_U( PCWSTR dos_name ) > > THANK YOU! This is what I was vaguely remembering. > > >Also, from the patch: > > > >/* COM and LPT must be followed by a single digit */ > > > >The code in src/winsup/cygwin/devices.cc would seem to indicate that > >the number is not limited to a single digit. > > I believe that whenever I try to limit COM to single digits someone > complains about their special board with 527 com ports or something.
That's another issue. COM12 is not a DOS device (on NT), but it can be the basename of an NT device. I had in mind the test in path.cc:special_name . It looks for > 1 digits and it's appropriate for Win9x Pierre