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Eric Blake wrote:

> That's with /.  What about with \?  The cygwin dll sometimes treats the
> two separators differently, where using \ is more likely to bypass cygwin
> checks.

Don't forget the other variants, like

\\.\c:\foo\bar
\\./c:/foo/bar
\??\c:\foo\bar
\??/c:\foo\bar
\??/c:/foo/bar

Brian

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