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Issue Type: Bug

Control-Press file:////proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances in a text editor.

VS Code version: Code 1.63.2 (899d46d82c4c95423fb7e10e68eba52050e30ba3, 2021-12-15T09:39:46.686Z) OS version: Linux x64 5.15.8-1-default Restricted Mode: No

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Load (avg)	1, 1, 1
Memory (System)	5.66GB (0.14GB free)
Process Argv	–unity-launch --crash-reporter-id 2a03cb52-9f4b-48bf-93d3-5c0537d534ee
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VM	0%
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Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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jriekencommented, Jan 3, 2022

The implementation is based on this comment: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.3. Maybe it misses some context that defines a prior normalisation step

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joeljosedevcommented, Jan 2, 2022

I think there’s an extra forward slash in your URL, does file:///proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances work?

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