phobo's std.file is completely broke!
Andre Pany
andre at s-e-a-p.de
Fri Sep 14 19:37:49 UTC 2018
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 19:06:14 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
> For very long file names it is broke and every command fails.
> These paths are not all that long but over 256 limit. (For
> windows)
>
> The problem this causes can be disastrous. If some check fails
> and runs code that isn't mean to run if the file exists, it
> could destroy data.
>
>
> I replaced many of the std.file functions with
> executeShell(...) and using command line functions and they
> work. But then my code was still failing and it was because
> exist was returning false even though the file exists.
>
> I'm sure this is not a big deal to some...
Without knowing the issue in detail, is this maybe related to
https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/266621/how-to-make-windows-10-accept-file-paths-over-260-characters/amp/ ?
Kind regards
Andre
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