svn commit: r239193 - head/lib/libc/gen

[Bryan Drewery]

On 8/11/2012 7:07 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Sat Aug 11 12:07:24 2012
> New Revision: 239193
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/239193
> 
> Log:
>   Rename aux.c to auxv.c.
>   
>   On Windows, AUX is the auxiliary device, usually pointing to COM1.
>   Therefore it is forbidden to create a file named aux.c. To make it a bit
>   easier for Windows users to check out our source code, rename this file
>   to auxv.c.

FWIW, here's the entire list [1] to try to avoid:

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,
COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx


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Bryan Drewery
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