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