BUG: UNC paths aren't resolved correctly

[bitbay]

Can't use a remote network path on windows, globs aren't resolved correctly.

Given an existing remote resource

C:\Users\user>dir /B \\192.168.1.2\fle.txt
file.txt

src() fails to access it correctly.

What were you expecting to happen?

Remote file.txt correctly copied to `./local'.

What actually happened?

No file was copied

Please give us a sample of your gulpfile

// CASE A: using forward slashes
const remoteFile = '//192.168.1.2/file.txt';
src(remoteFile).dest('./local');

// CASE B using (escaped) backward slashes
const remoteFile = '\\\\192.168.1.2\\file.txt';
src(remoteFile).dest('./local');

Terminal output / screenshots

# CASE A
Error: File not found with singular glob: //192.168.1.2/file.txt (if this was purposeful, use `allowEmpty` option)
at Glob.<anonymous> (D:\testing\node_modules\glob-stream\readable.js:84:17)
...

# CASE B
Error: File not found with singular glob: D:/testing/\\192.168.1.2\file.txt (if this was purposeful, use `allowEmpty` option)
at Glob.<anonymous> (D:\testing\node_modules\glob-stream\readable.js:84:17)
...

Please provide the following information:

• Windows 10
• node version (run node -v): v14.21.2
• npm version (run npm -v): 6.14.17
• gulp version (run gulp -v): CLI version: 2.3.0 Local version: 4.0.2

[phated]

@bitbay we had some bugs with absolute paths that were solved in 8.0.2 - I'm not sure if they were also causing your problems with UNC paths. I don't have a good way to test that, so could you give 8.0.2 a try?