Directory.GetFiles finds nonexisting files
问题 I just stumbled upon an undocumented behavior of the GetFiles methods in System.IO.Directory . Whenever the searchPattern parameter passed to the method contains a reserved Windows device name, such as "nul.*" or "aux.bmp" , the method returns an array containing the name of a nonexisting file, like C:\Users\ft1\nul or D:\aux , etc. I wonder if those device names have a special meaning it that context, like "." or "..", or if this is just a sort of bug. Anyway, that still seems pretty weird.