diff --git a/Package.resolved b/Package.resolved
index 2179a8a..d0c1ba2 100644
--- a/Package.resolved
+++ b/Package.resolved
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "originHash" : "f549ee4f482c73bec051b377de7b419a29337e3fb588d352ad1c7c6fad491b80",
+  "originHash" : "f3be3e2bc12b09669080e2780616cd0eb702c7a1e844b6aca5fe930314fc04f6",
   "pins" : [
     {
       "identity" : "swift-argument-parser",
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
       "location" : "https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-subprocess",
       "state" : {
-        "revision" : "13d087685b95d64d6aac9b94500d347bbe84c39b",
-        "version" : "0.4.0"
+        "revision" : "11633673a41f509f8945f23c96c7acd4adafd679",
+        "version" : "0.5.0"
       }
     },
     {
diff --git a/Sources/ShellKit/Shell+Path.swift b/Sources/ShellKit/Shell+Path.swift
index d9c1468..0278101 100644
--- a/Sources/ShellKit/Shell+Path.swift
+++ b/Sources/ShellKit/Shell+Path.swift
@@ -180,14 +180,13 @@ extension Shell {
             url = URL(fileURLWithPath: path)
         } else {
             #if os(Windows)
-            if path.count >= 2,
-               let second = path.dropFirst().first, second == ":" {
-                // Drive-letter absolutes live outside the unix-style
-                // virtual namespace; under a mapping they fall through
-                // to the unmapped sentinel below.
-                let driveURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: path)
-                guard sandbox?.pathMapping != nil else { return driveURL }
-                return Self.voidedUnmappedPath(path)
+            if path.hasPrefix("\\") || path.dropFirst().first == ":" {
+                // Drive-letter (`C:\x`) and backslash-rooted (`\x`,
+                // `\\server\share`) absolutes live outside the
+                // unix-style virtual namespace; under a mapping they
+                // fall through to the unmapped sentinel below.
+                guard sandbox?.pathMapping == nil else { return Self.voidedUnmappedPath(path) }
+                return URL(fileURLWithPath: onShellDrive(path) ?? path)
             }
             #endif
             let cwd = environment.workingDirectory
@@ -227,6 +226,24 @@ extension Shell {
         return URL(fileURLWithPath: translated.host)
     }
 
+    #if os(Windows)
+    /// `path` on the shell's drive when a backslash roots it at the
+    /// current drive's root (`\x`, not a `\\server\share` UNC path):
+    /// Windows takes the current drive for it, and the shell's is its
+    /// working directory's, which needn't be the process's. `nil` for
+    /// any other path, or when the working directory names no drive.
+    private func onShellDrive(_ path: String) -> String? {
+        guard path.hasPrefix("\\") else { return nil }
+        // A second separator makes it a UNC path.
+        if let second = path.dropFirst().first, second == "\\" || second == "/" { return nil }
+        let cwd = environment.workingDirectory
+        guard let letter = cwd.first, letter.isASCII, letter.isLetter,
+              cwd.dropFirst().first == ":"
+        else { return nil }
+        return String(cwd.prefix(2)) + path
+    }
+    #endif
+
     /// Resolve `path` against ``current``'s working directory.
     /// Equivalent to `Shell.current.resolve(path)`; provided for
     /// call-site convenience.
diff --git a/Tests/ShellKitTests/ShellTests.swift b/Tests/ShellKitTests/ShellTests.swift
index 6f58044..2d78561 100644
--- a/Tests/ShellKitTests/ShellTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/ShellKitTests/ShellTests.swift
@@ -89,6 +89,43 @@ import ShellCommandKit  // Shell.register(_:) bridge
         #expect(url.path == "/tmp/some-where/file.txt")
     }
 
+    #if os(Windows)
+    @Test func resolveBackslashRootedPathsAsAbsolute() async throws {
+        var env = Environment()
+        // A drive the process is unlikely to be on.
+        env.workingDirectory = #"Q:\work"#
+        let shell = Shell(environment: env)
+        // Rooted by a backslash, as by a drive letter: not joined to the
+        // working directory. A UNC path or a drive keeps its own root…
+        for path in [#"\\server\share\repo.git"#, "//server/share/repo.git", #"C:\repo.git"#] {
+            #expect(shell.resolve(path) == URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
+        }
+        // …and the current drive's root is the shell's, not the process's.
+        #expect(shell.resolve(#"\repo.git"#) == URL(fileURLWithPath: #"Q:\repo.git"#))
+        #expect(shell.resolve(#"\"#) == URL(fileURLWithPath: #"Q:\"#))
+        // Without a drive to take (a unix-style working directory), the
+        // process's. `Environment()` itself starts in the process's
+        // directory, drive included.
+        var driveless = Environment()
+        driveless.workingDirectory = "/virtual/cwd"
+        #expect(Shell(environment: driveless).resolve(#"\repo.git"#)
+            == URL(fileURLWithPath: #"\repo.git"#))
+        // Outside the virtual namespace, so voided under a mapping.
+        shell.sandbox = .confined(
+            to: PathMapping(mounts: [.init(virtual: "/work", host: #"C:\work"#)]),
+            home: "/work")
+        #expect(shell.resolve(#"\\server\share\repo.git"#).path
+            .contains(Shell.unmappedPathSentinel))
+    }
+    #else
+    @Test func resolveTakesABackslashAsAnOrdinaryCharacter() async throws {
+        var env = Environment()
+        env.workingDirectory = "/tmp/some-where"
+        let shell = Shell(environment: env)
+        #expect(shell.resolve(#"\file.txt"#).path == #"/tmp/some-where/\file.txt"#)
+    }
+    #endif
+
     @Test func resolveStaticHonoursCurrent() async throws {
         var env = Environment()
         env.workingDirectory = "/var/scope"