Haha Windows!

Well, to be fair, windows inherited this mechanism from unix. Read the story in the tweet

@netikras but Unix implemented pipes properly, not by using some virtual file in EVERY directory

@aul12 Who was to say what was the *proper* implementation back then? :) Who knows, tables could have turned and windows way could have appeared as more advanced. SW was still in its young days back then.

It's a shame though that MS hasn't realized by today that it was a mistake.

Pipes are still used often on Unix based systems and do not lead to such strange problems. I haven't seen the usage of pipes on windows and still some relict of pipes lead to errors

AUX, COM[0-9], LPT[0-9] and others are "globals" in DOS (and therefore Windows). You can pipe to them from anywhere, without specifying a path like /dev/ttyUSB 0.

@FrodoSwaggins It probably shouldn't match, but it does. The screenshot doesn't lie.

@FrodoSwaggins https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/... that's the article explaining this behaviour in detail

@FrodoSwaggins fortunately, this one is easy to test, requiring only momentary access to a Windows machine