[PATCH] Allow manipulating files with long names on Windows

[Aaron Cohen]

On Monday, January 17, 2011, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> I don't see any test cases using util.posixfile here. And I have some
> doubts the extension works with util.posixfile on Windows. Can you prove
> me wrong?
>
> (util.posixfile is pretty heavily used by Mercurial on Windows)

That reminds me of another question I had. What's the rationale of the
duplicate functions in util in general? Take posixfile, why create a
second function rather than replacing __builtin__.open with a version
that "does the right thing?

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-- Aaron