[issue29850] file access, other drives

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun added the comment:

When you say "to be precise...C:/Windows/...System32", do you mean that this is the only directory that you've tested? If so, what you're seeing may be WOW64 file-system redirection, if your 2.7 installation is 64-bit and 3.6 installation is 32-bit, or vice versa. 

In a WOW64 process, accessing the %SystemRoot%\System32 directory in most cases gets redirected to the 32-bit system directory, %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64. You can access the native system directory via %SystemRoot%\SysNative.

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