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As other posters have said it's UNC, however if you're interested in other weirdness around files in Windows, checkout NTFS streams.
by fleitz 13y ago
As other posters have said it's UNC, however if you're interested in other weirdness around files in Windows, checkout NTFS streams.
- mdmarra 13y agoA UNC always references a network path. You can use \\?\ to reference a network path, but it can also be used to reference a local path too. \\?\ is not always used to represent a UNC. \\?\ is an extended-length path.
- tekacs 13y ago\\?\ is an unparsed path - the path is passed directly to the filesystem, bypassing checks and other Win32 API restrictions - a side effect of this is that maximum length checks are bypassed, but this is NOT the only effect. See GP's link for more details.