phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[tide]

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...

If you are on Windows 10 version 1607 or later, there's a 
registry key you can set so that the default behavior of the 
Win32 API allows long file path names. But yah, the problem is 
Windows, its horrible file system and structure thereof. You'd 
have faced this problem using any other language like C or C++ 
included.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem LongPathsEnabled 
(Type: REG_DWORD)