[Issue 8967] dirEntries throws when encountering a "long path" on windows

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967

Stefan Liebig <StefanLiebig at web.de> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Stefan Liebig <StefanLiebig at web.de> ---
I am currently struggling with this limitation and I wonder how e.g. the JVM
deals with this limitation.
As you probably know when using Java IO this limitation does not exist although
the JVM uses the win32 API.
A little bit of research (google) leads to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10094365/how-does-java-circumvent-the-windows-max-path-winapi-limitation
And it seems that the JVM internally does the required prefixing with "\\?\" of
path names before calling the win32 API.

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