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Subject: Re: Null filename ("") is considered to correspond to an existing, 
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> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:41:51 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Why do you absolutely want to create files with the empty string as
> name?  It does not work, at least not on POSIX systems.  Does it work
> on MS Windows?

Of course, it doesn't.