On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:15:58PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
> See https://www.fossil-scm.org/aux-test/doc/trunk/aux.md
> 
> Apparently if a Fossil repository contains a file whose basename is
> "aux", then an attempt to open or check-out that repo fails with an
> error.  Only the basename needs to be "aux".  The full name can be
> things like "src/aux.c" or "doc/aux.txt".

aux is a device name, nul and a couple of other things should trigger
the same behavior. I can't remember if there was ever a way to
workaround it. One of the funny ways to kill a Win9x installation was to
patch the io.sys and rename aux to windows...

Joerg
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