Does This Scare You?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:00 AM, eryk sun <eryksun at 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.

ChrisA