dealing with very long paths and names

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Fri Sep 14 20:52:42 UTC 2018


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 07:05:35PM +0000, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 17:59:38 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
> > Seems to break dirEntries when trying to deal with long pathnames(>
> > 512) on windows.
> > 
> > It's a strange error because it just fails with access denied or
> > missing file.
> 
> The bug is known, see https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967

Whoa.  After seeing the insane mess that is the Windows pathname syntax,
I'm so glad I code on Linux instead!


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