I think I know what's going on here. At some point, we started recognizing some 
"REST" like filename structures as ways to communicate parameters to procedural 
image generators, and so I bet the "?" is throwing it off. I will investigate.


> On Mar 23, 2022, at 9:23 AM, haggi <ha...@haggi.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we just encountered a problem working with maktetx and windows unc paths.
> We use UNC path notation for accessing the files in our network like this:
> 
> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx \\produktion\dfs\images\Raumplan.png
> 
> This works great. But sometimes the pathnames are too long and our usual 
> solution was to use a windows naming convention:
> 
> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx 
> \\?\UNC\produktion\dfs\very...long...path\Raumplan.png
> 
> This can be tested locally with this lines:
> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx \\?\C:\image.png
> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test2.tx C:\image.png
> 
> The error message we get is:
> ImageInput::create() called with malformed filename
> 
> Now comes the interesting part:
> Since we use the maketx from Arnold renderer, I only have these two versions 
> to compare but:
> 
> This was not a problem in maketx from OIIO 1.7.7
> 
> It is a problem in the version of OIIO 2.1 (or earlier somtime between 1.7.7 
> and 2.1)
>  
> Any ideas?
> 
> haggi
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