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Hello,
Has there been any progress on supporting long path names on Windows? I
noticed that there have been changes in Windows 10 that let you opt-in
to bypassing the `MAX_PATH` limit by setting up a manifest and registry
key:
- <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath>
- <https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeremykuhne/2016/07/30/net-4-6-2-and-long-paths-on-windows-10/>
(spotted on the Python bug tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue18199>,
<https://bugs.python.org/issue27731>).
However, it seems that these changes depend on using the wide-char
versions of the API functions. I see that there is already an issue for
this here <https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=60888> (and
the associated meta issue for Unicode and system calls
<https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=105914>).
If this can not be done yet, it might be useful to catch the error when
calls like open() fail on Windows. Right now the output of accessing a
long file path on Windows looks like this:
```perl
use autodie;
open($long_path);
```
```output
Can't open('$long_path'): No such file or directory
```
When I use built-in commands like `dir`, it tells me: `The filename or
extension is too long.` which is more informative.
Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal
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