In my app, written mostly in Qt, file I/O on windows network path such as \\network\share\file.txt work well for both reading and writing.
Except for opening EXR files, which are read through OpenEXR library, passing the file path as a const char *
After looking into OpenEXR source, it just passes the file path to the constructor of a std::ifstream. So it seems that Qt fully supports windows network paths, while MinGW stdlib implementation does not.
Is the only solution to make a fstream wrapper class operating on a QFile, or am I missing something, such as slash encoding in path or anything else?
The path is obtained from a GUI open file dialog, and opens flawlessly with QFile.