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Handle other special path prefixes on Windows #47

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parasyte opened this issue Jan 24, 2022 · 0 comments
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Handle other special path prefixes on Windows #47

parasyte opened this issue Jan 24, 2022 · 0 comments

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This is follow-up for #32.

The Rust std library recently got better support for handling special Windows paths in rust-lang/rust#89174 (stabilized in 1.58.0).

While going through the PR, I noticed some other path prefixes that I was not aware of: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/89174/files#diff-1d1bc84d05775ebd4b147542747b8e57edf520a54935771ce1d85f383596aa64R169-R174

And digging even further, I have seen some sources claim that way Windows handles paths is incredibly complex: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitive-guide-on-win32-to-nt.html (All I can really say is that the 36-year lineage of Windows did not do it any favors.)
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