Update fails with long file name

[Augie Fackler]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, very much broken. I had to look up how to even create such a file. I
> created two, "aux.txt" and "NUL.txt".
>
> Once I got those created, I was asked for admin privileges to delete. It
> didn't matter if I allow that; I can't delete the files in Windows explorer.
>
> I need to use the \\.\C:\ syntax to remove them with the del command.


Okay, it sounds like there are two issues then:

1) reserved "device" names like aux break explorer.exe and related old apps
2) long file paths break explorer.exe and related old apps

it sounds like 2 is at least partially mitigated as of Windows 7,
which I guess is interesting news.

(I also do not have a Windows machine, so I have only minimal
motivation at the moment to figure out what the Right set of
restrictions is to enforce on windows users for minimal breakage.)