Greetings, Federico Kircheis! >>> 1) >>> root path, like C:\ , because for whatever reason \\?\C:\ is not valid, it >>> has to be a subfolder (and trying to trick it with \\?\C:\\ does not work >>> either). >> > In which scenario? \\?\C:\ is just the same as \??\C:\ in NT speak, and >> that's a perfectly valid directory path.
> I've never seen \??\C:\. > My test case, from powershell (which I do definitively _not_ know well > enough, otherwise I wouldn't be using cygwin) was > cd C:\ # success > cd \\?\C:\ # fail > cd C:\windows # success > cd \\?\C:\windows # success This way, you're testing command interpreter, not WinApi. The command interpreter has its own ideas about what you can and can not use with it. > and repeat the same operation with dir instead of ls. > The error message is that the "value of argument path is not valid" F.e. Far manager works just fine with `goto:\\?\C:\`. More or less. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, December 16, 2024 15:57:08 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
