On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 19:31, René Berber via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 4/15/2020 1:10 PM, Paul Moore via Cygwin wrote: > > [snip] > > Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations > > values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going on there > > that means that just ignoring the first 3 characters isn't > > sufficient... ;-) > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats > > Look for "DOS device paths"
Thanks. That's \\?\C:\... and what I'm seeing is \??\C:\... Is that just a typo/bug? That's the discrepancy that was confusing me :-( Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
