https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/23/ntfs-vs-battlestar/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 26 May 2011 00:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/23/ntfs-vs-battlestar/comment-page-1/#comment-42952 Thu, 26 May 2011 00:46:39 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7852#comment-42952 This problem has been around since MS-DOS 1.0, if not contemporary versions of CP/M which immediate preceded it. In MS-DOS, device names are not file names, as they are in Unix. They’re special tokens, checked for explicitly by the API. DOS maintains a device list which, upon every attempt to open a file, is consulted to see if a device is being opened instead of a regular file.

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