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Author	kaba2
Recipients	kaba2
Date	2012-09-07.16:40:14
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Message-id	<1347036015.89.0.836232949292.issue15880@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Windows, long-UNC paths are needed to inspect and modify paths with more than 260 characters. The os.path.split() function behaves incorrectly in the presence of a long-UNC prefix //?/ or \\?\. Consider iterating d = os.path.split(d)[0] with d = '//?/e:/python-test/dir'. Then the values of d are as follows: '//?/e:/python-test/dir' '//?/e:/python-test' '//?/e:' '//?' '//' The two last splits are the incorrect ones, where the splitting should end at '//?/e:'. One consequence of this is that os.makedirs(d) crashes, because it attempts to run os.mkdir('//') at the bottom of its recursion. The same thing happens when replacing all / with \\ in the above.

On Windows, long-UNC paths are needed to inspect and modify paths with more than 260 characters. The os.path.split() function behaves incorrectly in the presence of a long-UNC prefix //?/ or \\?\. Consider iterating d = os.path.split(d)[0] with d = '//?/e:/python-test/dir'. Then the values of d are as follows:

'//?/e:/python-test/dir'
'//?/e:/python-test'
'//?/e:'
'//?'
'//'

The two last splits are the incorrect ones, where the splitting should end at '//?/e:'.

One consequence of this is that os.makedirs(d) crashes, because it attempts to run os.mkdir('//') at the bottom of its recursion. The same thing happens when replacing all / with \\ in the above.

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