On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:07 -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > 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.
You can open the file and test the file type with GetFileType. If it's type FILE_TYPE_CHAR then it's probably not what you wanted. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/getfiletype.asp Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
