phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/20/2018 03:38 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 02:48:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> (Abscissa) wrote:
>> What drives me mad is when allegedly cross-platform tools deliberately 
>> propagate non-cross-platform quirks that could easily be abstracted 
>> away and pretend that's somehow "helping" me instead of making a 
>> complete wreck of the whole point of cross-platform.
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/limits.h.html
>> A strictly conforming application must not require a larger value for 
>> correct operation.
> {_POSIX_NAME_MAX}
>      Maximum number of bytes in a filename (not including terminating 
> null).
>      Value: 14
> {_POSIX_PATH_MAX}
>      Maximum number of bytes in a pathname.
>      Value: 256

I generally omit obvious disclaimers such as "to a reasonable extent" 
and "within reason".

I've yet to see a current, non-esoteric *nix that has such limitations. 
Particularly that first one. If it were a realistic thing, like it is 
with Windows, then I'd be all for a similarly simple workaround if such 
exists. But to my knowledge, that is more theoretical/historical than it 
is realistic.