id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
8539,Windows Extended Path Prefix Suggestion,ascend4nt@…,Beman Dawes,"With the Windows extended path prefix:
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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.",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.53.0,Optimization,,windows filesystem extended path,