full-disclosure - annoying bug in Windows XP

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Date: Sun Oct 23 18:54:21 2005
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: annoying bug in Windows XP

sure it is a feature, not a bug.

at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
your idol wrote:
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant
number of users want fixed."

    * Source: Focus Magazine, nr.43, pages 206-212, (October 23, 1995)

a female melinda is rumored to have said:

"for every chick 8.3cm. is long enough iff it is not macro and not hard"

-- 
where do you want bill gates to go today?



On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:53:18AM -0400, joe wrote:
> Yep it is a documented function. It is due to the implementation of
> FindFirstFile which searches both long file names and short file names.
>  
> See Remarks in
>  
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/f
> indfirstfile.asp
>