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  Thu Dec 08 08:07:21 2016 rrwo [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: File::Copy copy function should use sysopen instead of open
On Windows, there are reserved filenames, e.g. "aux.txt" that are prefixed by device names. It is possible to create files/directories, as long as they are escaped, e.g. \\.\C:\some\dirs\aux.txt But Perl''s open() function cannot open these files. They can be opened using sysopen.
  Thu Dec 08 08:09:33 2016 rrwo [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Arguably, File::Spec->rel2abs should perhaps escape these as well. Or perhaps there should be an option to do that. On Thu Dec 08 08:07:21 2016, RRWO wrote: Show quoted text
> On Windows, there are reserved filenames, e.g. "aux.txt" that are > prefixed by device names. > > It is possible to create files/directories, as long as they are > escaped, e.g. \\.\C:\some\dirs\aux.txt > > But Perl''s open() function cannot open these files. They can be > opened using sysopen.