Re: Slow access to files using UNC path

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:05:17 +0530
> From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" <address@hidden>
> 
> Ex: A valid UNC can be either "//hostname/sharefolder/file" or
> "\\hostname\sharefolder\file" (add extra backslash in Emacs)
> and _not_ "/\hostname/sharefolder/file" ...

To the best of my knowledge, "/\hostname/sharefolder/file" is also
treated as a UNC.  Windows canonicalizes the file names before it
passes them to the filesystem-related system calls, and as part of
that canonicalization every slash is converted to a backslash.