On Friday, September 14, 2018 2:52:42 PM MDT H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 07:05:35PM +0000, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > > On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 17:59:38 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote: > > > Seems to break dirEntries when trying to deal with long pathnames(> > > > 512) on windows. > > > > > > It's a strange error because it just fails with access denied or > > > missing file. > > > > The bug is known, see https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967 > > Whoa. After seeing the insane mess that is the Windows pathname syntax, > I'm so glad I code on Linux instead!
Yeah, though if you write cross-platform applications or libraries (and ideally, most applications and libraries would be platform-agnostic), you can't necessarily avoid all of the Windows insanity, even if you yourself use a platform without those problems. - Jonathan M Davis