Hello, I'm using Boost 1.46.1 with filesystem v3. Code that I've been running successfully on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD started producing very mysterious results on Solaris. I boiled it down to this: boost::filesystem will not identify a directory as a directory. Here's a test program: #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> int main() { try { boost::filesystem::path d(boost::filesystem::absolute("dir")); if (boost::filesystem::exists(d)) { std::cout << d << " already exists" << std::endl; } else { boost::filesystem::create_directory(d); std::cout << d << " is " << (boost::filesystem::is_directory(d) ? "" : "not") << " a directory" << std::endl; } } catch (std::exception& e) { std::cout << "Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl; } return 0; } And here is a snippet of a terminal session compiling and running the program: $ CC -o fstest fstest.cpp -library=stlport4 -Iexternal/solaris/x86/64/suncc/5.11/include external/solaris/x86/64/suncc/5.11/lib/libboost_filesystem.a external/solaris/x86/64/suncc/5.11/lib/libboost_system.a $ ./fstest "/export/home/will/Projects/cap/dir" is not a directory $ file /export/home/will/Projects/cap/dir /export/home/will/Projects/cap/dir: directory $ Thanks for any help, Will