[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8539: Windows Extended Path Prefix Suggestion

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8539: Windows Extended Path Prefix Suggestion
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-02 03:45:48

#8539: Windows Extended Path Prefix Suggestion
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 Reporter:  ascend4nt@…                       |       Owner:  bemandawes  
     Type:  Feature Requests                  |      Status:  new         
Milestone:  To Be Determined                  |   Component:  filesystem  
  Version:  Boost 1.53.0                      |    Severity:  Optimization
 Keywords:  windows filesystem extended path  |  
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 With the Windows extended path prefix:
 {{{
 \\?\
 }}}
 It might make sense if the path class pre-allocates 4 extra characters for
 paths and stores the actual path at position m_pathname[4] in the string.
 When a path exceeds MAX_PATH, the path functions could write the extended
 path prefix at m_pathname[0] and pass that along to the Windows API.  It
 may make sense to return this as something like extended_path() as well.

 The only problems in dealing with extended paths are that there can be no
 relative path (. and ..) segments and no forward slashes.

 I realize this may require alot of logic changes in the code (shifting
 read/write locations); however it could cut down on additional Windows-
 specific wrappers around the path class.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8539>
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