phobo's std.file is completely broke!

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On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 22:49:26 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> To elaborate:
>
> On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 22:40:45 UTC, Vladimir 
> Panteleev wrote:
>> If *YOU* are OK with the consequences of complexity, implement 
>> this in YOUR code, but do not enforce it upon others.
>
> This is much better done in user code anyway, because you only 
> need to expand / normalize the path and prepend the prefix only 
> once (root of the directory tree you're operating on), instead 
> of once per directory call.
>
> We could add a `string longPath(string)` function in Phobos 
> (no-op on POSIX, expands and prepends prefix on Windows). I 
> believe I suggested the same in the bug report years ago when 
> we discussed it.
>
>> It is absolutely not acceptable behavior. Complain to 
>> Microsoft. The OS should not allow users to create or select 
>> paths that programs cannot operate on without jumping through 
>> crazy hoops.
>
> Microsoft could have solved this easily enough:
>
> extern(System) void AllowLongPaths();
>
> Programs (or programming language runtimes) which can handle 
> paths longer than MAX_PATH could call that function. It can 
> also be used as a hint to the OS that file/directory selection 
> dialogs, as you mentioned, are allowed to select paths longer 
> than MAX_PATH.

It's problem with phobos.
It should be able handle all the paths whatever length they have, 
on all the platforms without noising the user.

Even with performance penalty, but it should.