René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"GCI of extended-length path \"\\\\?\\\" returns incorrect items","articleBody":"\u003c!--\r\n\r\nFor Windows PowerShell 5.1 issues, suggestions, or feature requests please use the following link instead:\r\nWindows PowerShell [UserVoice](https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell)\r\n\r\nThis repository is **ONLY** for PowerShell Core 6 and PowerShell 7+ issues.\r\n\r\n- Make sure you are able to repro it on the [latest released version](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases)\r\n- Search the existing issues.\r\n- Refer to the [FAQ](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md).\r\n- Refer to the [known issues](https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/whats-new/known-issues-ps6).\r\n\r\n--\u003e\r\n\r\n## Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\r\nGet-ChildItem -LiteralPath '\\\\?\\D:\\'\r\nGet-ChildItem -LiteralPath '\\\\?\\UNC\\server\\share'\r\n\r\n```\r\n\r\n## Expected behavior\r\n\r\n```none\r\nGets the items in the specified location.\r\n```\r\n\r\n## Actual behavior\r\n\r\n```none\r\nGets the items in the root of the current drive (e.g. C:\\).  Same cmdlet in PSVersion 5.1 gets the items in the specified location.\r\n```\r\n\r\n## Environment data\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```none\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      7.1.1\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    7.1.1\r\nOS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.14393\r\nPlatform                       Win32NT\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mccarrm","@type":"Person","name":"mccarrm"},"datePublished":"2021-01-26T16:16:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/14668/PowerShell/issues/14668"}