I've done some rough hacks to the 1.2.5 source to try and test the \\?\C:\etc.
I've found that >>> os.mkdir(u"\\\\?\\c:\\backups\\dir" Works fine, but >>> os.mkdir(u"\\\\?\\c:\\backups/dir" does not. Unfortunately, the latter is what is produced when rdiff-backup adds a directory to the current path. Using os.path.join(existing_path, new_dir) will add the separator specific to the host operating system. I'm familiarizing myself with the rdiff-backup codebase, so I'm hoping it won't be too long before I can figure out where to make the needed changes. Perhaps someone reading this could point me in the right direction? - Austin On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Ferguson wrote: > >> However, >> >> >>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp\\") >> ['dest', 'source', 'test', 'test-dest'] >> >>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp") >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label >> syntax is incorrect: '\\\\?\\c:\\Temp/*.*' >> >> so, \\?\C:\Temp\ works, but \\?\C:\Temp fails. WTF? >> > > > And a followup, almost as a note, if we change to unicode, then it works... > > >>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label > syntax is incorrect: '\\\\?\\c:\\Temp/*.*' > >>> os.listdir(u"\\\\?\\c:\\Temp") > [u'dest', u'source', u'test', u'test-dest'] > > > Gah. > > > Andrew >
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