The \\Foo\ example I gave was poorly chosen, because they put in a kluge fix so ...

goodside on July 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Atlassian, AU company raises US60M, unheard of for...

The \\Foo\ example I gave was poorly chosen, because they put in a kluge fix so that anything that resembles a Windows file path will pass through unparsed. You cannot use \\ in any other circumstance, which is why \\Foo failed.