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I just stumbled upon an undocumented behavior of the GetFiles methods in System.IO.Directory . Whenever the searchPattern parameter passed to the method contains a reserved Windows device name, such as "nul.*" or "aux.bmp" , the method returns an array containing the name of a nonexisting file, like C:\Users\ft1\nul or D:\aux , etc. I wonder if those device names have a special meaning it that context, like "." or "..", or if this is just a sort of bug. Anyway, that still seems pretty weird. For example, this code snippet in C#: string[] fileNames = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\D:\..\..\...\", "con.txt"); foreach (string fileName in fileNames) Console.WriteLine(fileName); prints C:\D:\..\..\...\con Any clues?
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