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by justeleblanc 1140 days ago
Look, I just created a file named "aux.rs" on my Windows machine. It's not true.
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I've seen this plenty of times, but maybe if was fixed in the last year or so. My issue was when trying to delete a Linux source tree that was git cloned on Linux onto a flash drive. Maybe the filesystem had something to do with it, but it was entirely impossible to delete it using any tool I know of in Windows.
I think they have changed it so that you can by now create files with forbidden names and an extension. But that's a somewhat recent change.

Also you could always create such names with the right APIs, so one application could create such files, but another can't delete them or open them.

Same. It's definitely not true