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What the heck is a `\\.\nul` path and why is it breaking my Directory Files Lookup?
Yesterday - Hood River, Oregon
I've been trying to track down an odd bug in my logs related to Null device failures in directory lookups which have been causing application level exceptions. In some odd scenarios these null mappings are showing up for files. In this post I take a look at what they are and how to work around them for this very edge case scenario.