CreateFileW and the "nearly" 32,000 chars limit

[jj2007]

There are people that use deeply nested folders/subfolders and the lenght of the combined names sometimes exceed MAX_PATH.

Such people should be locked in a psychiatric clinic, or be forced to work in Redmond

Just joking, José. I wonder if there is any risk in using the \\?\ scheme by default

[José Roca]

There is at least one limitation: you can't use it with relative paths.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd

[José Roca]

What I do is to use always the W function and let the onus to the user. If he needs more than MAX_PATH, he must add the \\?\ prefix.

[jj2007]

There is at least one limitation: you can't use it with relative paths.

Good point. Same for \Masm32\some.txt paths. So it's quite limited, not worth to change all file I/O macros.