Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-17 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 20:52:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Whoa. After seeing the insane mess that is the Windows pathname syntax, I'm so glad I code on Linux instead! Yeah, also SIGPIPE, EINTR and "fork should be fast enough".

Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, September 15, 2018 8:45:55 AM MDT Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 21:16:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Yeah, though if you write cross-platform applications or > > libraries (and ideally, most applications and libraries

Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-15 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 21:16:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: 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

Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
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 +, 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

Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-14 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 07:05:35PM +, 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

Re: dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-14 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn
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

dealing with very long paths and names

2018-09-14 Thread Josphe Brigmo via Digitalmars-d-learn
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.