expecting such side effects on Linux wouldn't occur to me.

Windows bugs Linux even when it's nowhere near the machine: spookiest "action from a distance" I have seen.

What's more dangerous is that (as far as I read, since I don't have any M$) there are ways to circumvent windows stopping you from creating a CON file and do create one, e.g. echo "test" > \\?\C:\Users\yourname\con . This is borrowed from https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g4vfp2/why_you_cant_name_a_file_con_in_windows_tom_scott/ and BE-WARNED that a) it is untested by me, and b) if you do create CON then you will have a hard time deleting it.

In the link I cite above, they are also mentioning of pulling from a git repo with a CON file in it. And I add: what happens if a ZIP or TAR archive contains a CON file? Or, what if mounting an NTFS after booting from a linux live USB and dumping a CON in there. So, in theory, there are some ways to create a CON file which the M$ police will have a hard time catching.

The big question is: how Perl is affected by this?

In reply to Re^5: perl -d myprog autostarts - but only in one specific directory by bliako
in thread perl -d myprog autostarts - but only in one specific directory by ibm1620

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