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easy_fail_to_install
Mar. 19th, 2014 12:25 amReactOS has problems
Mar. 6th, 2014 03:59 pmA supposed workaround is to make a Really Administrators group, assign your file permissions to Really Administrators, put your administrators in there instead of in Administrators, and stick that group under Administrators. I will have to try that.
DOS device files and Windows
Sep. 1st, 2012 10:04 pmDoes Windows no longer have DOS device files? I redirected a program's output to nul and it actually created a file named "nul". Then I tried to delete the file through the GUI and got the error "Cannot delete nul: The parameter is incorrect". Huh.
It matters whether or not I am in Cygwin. DOS device files are emulated by cmd.exe and apparently filtered by Windows Explorer, but Cygwin can manipulate them without any difficulty. s_alanet at e2 discusses how this half-baked implementation of DOS device files can be used to DoS a file server by creating a file that cannot easily be deleted.
