On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:02:31PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > I admit I don't know enough to say how the lpt1 issue should be > handled. Is there any Win32 call I can make that will help me avoid > accidentally opening these magic files? Say, if I call open with > O_CREAT | O_EXCL? Unfortunately, I can find very little information on > how one should handle this issue.
Thanks to a suggestion from Bulat to use c_open, I was able to test O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL on Windows. In fact, Windows does allow files like "nul" to be opened (as many times as you like) with these flags, which I find dismaying. So I still don't know the proper way to handle them. Andrew _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
