[issue8869] execfile does not work with UNC paths

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

Reproduced on WinXP.
execfile() does not work because it calls the system function stat(); 
this function does accept UNC paths (like \\machine\share\file), but not paths which contain a wildcard character ('?' or '*')

I suggest to remove the leading '\\\\?\\'.

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