Subject: bug#18628: Emacs hangs trying to open "CON" file (on Windows)

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:18:41 -0400

tag 18628 + unreproducible
quit

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Yes, I do understand.  But I cannot reproduce the problem with such
> a simple recipe: for me, Emacs does not hang, but instead says "File
> exists, but cannot be read", which sounds reasonable.

Getting the same on Windows 8, Emacs 24.5 and 25.0.94.