On 2016-08-24, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:00 AM, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I discovered why "Logs/con.txt" isn't working right in Windows 7, >> while "Logs/nul.txt" does get redirected correctly to r"\\.\nul". >> Prior to Windows 8 the console doesn't use an NT device, so the base >> API has a function named BaseIsThisAConsoleName that looks for names >> such as r"\\.CON", r"\\.CONIN$", "CON", or r"C:\Temp\con.txt" and >> returns either "CONIN$" or "CONOUT$" if there's a match. A match for >> just "CON" maps to one or the other of the latter depending on whether >> read or write access is desired. > > See? This is why *even after I tested it* I wasn't sure I was right! > The rules are... complicated.
Hence my doubts about this function - it has almost no chance of not being broken, potentially leading to whatever code was using it having security holes. Perhaps it should be deprecated or at least attract a large caveat in the documentation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
