id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5448	"Windows ""\\\\?\\"", ""\\\\?\\UNC\\"", and ""\\\\.\\"" path meta characters"	Beman Dawes	Beman Dawes	"Windows treats ""\\\\?\\"", ""\\\\?\\UNC\\"", and ""\\\\.\\"" at the start of a path as meta characters signaling special handling of the remainder of the path. So, for example, ""\\\\?\\"" should be treated as an empty path!

See ""Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces"", http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Ticket 5405 supplied a patch that allows class path to handle a portion of what this implies, but does not deal with the general problem.

A few test cases have been added to path_test.cpp, but they are currently commented out."	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost 1.47.0	Problem