weird punnet square of results:

EDIT hangs if you open "CON", but errors if you try "C:\CON\CON"
Win95 errors if you try to open "CON", but crashes if you try "C:\CON\CON"

@foone

Wasn't there also once a bug in Win7 or 8 that caused it to hang in kernelspace and bluescreen with these once?

@foone No, I mean something way more recent. Cause that together with early days Minecrafrt modding (where you had to unzip the jar file and then at some version there was a file named "AUX" in it)

where when I learned about these special filenames for the first time. And I didn't play minecraft on anything less recent than win7, so...

@agowa338 oh that's not a bug, that's an intentional design decision. windows reserves a bunch of filenames and it's a pain

the bug where this crashed the machine hasn't been there since windows 95, that's a separate issue

@f4grx @agowa338 yeah!

I made a list of the reserved names, as a git repo, so that windows users can not check it out

https://github.com/foone/forbidden-files