why got \??\ in the path ?

From: Polaris (etpolaris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/23/05

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:30:35 -0700

    Hi Experts:

    Wrote a small program on XP to get a list of running processes. I used the
    GetModuleFileNameEx, EnumProcessModules to go through each process and get
    the process path, most of the returned path is ok, but noticed strange one
    below:

    \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe (0x4A680000)

    Anyone knows why there is \??\ at the front of the path? Does that mean the
    csrss.exe is a virus? In task manager, the csrss.exe is running and cannot
    be stopped.

    Any thought is appriciated.

    Thanks In Advance!

    Polaris

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