Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:30:05 -0700
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> boringly babbled:

NT has its own low-level scheme for identifying devices/representing
file paths. If you're curious, someone at the Google compound did a
write-up on it some years back:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitive-guide-on-win32-to
-nt.html
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For most practical purposes, users and user-level application software
pretty much never see this or have to think about it - but it *is*
there, and it does cause strange corner-case behavior sometimes. (I'm
pretty sure the underlying reason why cmd.exe sometimes cannot access
network shares mapped to a conventional drive letter has to do with
this, f'rinstance.)

To sum up, Microsoft have made a complete dogs dinner of something as simple
and basic as file paths. You couldn't make it up.

Can Windows do non-root level filesystem mounting yet? Ie unix can mount a
new filesystem anywhere in the current filesystem hierarchy.