phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 08:36:35 UTC, Vladimir 
Panteleev wrote:
>> If you're referring to NUL, COM1, COM2, etc, then this is 
>> completely orthogonal.
>
> Yes. How so? It is the same issue: paths with certain 
> properties are valid on all platforms except on Windows. Phobos 
> errors out when attempting to access/create them. A simple 
> workaround is available: expand/normalize the path, prepend the 
> UNC prefix, and use Unicode APIs.

I just remembered, there is a third class of paths with these 
properties: paths containing directory components that begin or 
end with spaces.

There are probably more... I think some special characters are 
also valid only in UNC paths.