[developers] Empty file named ... at logon/uio/test/logs/

Arne Skjærholt arnskj at ifi.uio.no
Tue Oct 6 19:27:13 CEST 2015


This was sufficiently weird that I googled around a bit.

It appears that the Win32 file naming rules (which are different from
the NTFS naming restrictions, just to make things extra interesting)
outlaw various names, including names ending in a space or a period.
Some more information about this can be found at
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247

Arne
:wq


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