Cannot create a directory named "Aux" or starting by "Aux." on Windows 8.1

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I just encountered a really weird bug on Windows 8.1.

I can't seem to be able to create a folder named Aux or starting by Aux.. I tried on every disk, but I get the following message every time: Le nom du périphérique spécifié n'est pas valide (The name of the specified device is invalid).

Why is that? Is there a specific/valid reason? Is it specific to my computer?

I discovered this because I programatically created a folder named Aux and I can't delete it anymore. I guess I have to run a script or program to get rid of it. (As it usually happens with such scenario on Windows)

windows-8.1
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I'd like to add my experience : If your machine has windows and ubuntu dual boot, delete it from ubuntu filesystem.

Also in Ubuntu, I don't know if it is a problem with git or ubuntu, when i cloned a certain project which had a file named 'aux.c' in it, there was an error saying 'encountered an error while cloning aux.h and aux.c ...'. I used

git clone [project-git-url]

If we only download the .tar file and then extract it, even then an error was encountered.

So, this is a really idiotic bug and I hate MS-DOS btw.(who even uses MS-DOS nowadays?)

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