At 08:31 AM 10/3/2004, Russell Hind wrote:
Walter Landry wrote:
If I so desired, I could mount HFS+, BeFS, JFS, FFS, BFS, ADFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS, ext2/3, XFS, UMSDOS, Reiserfs, ISO 9660, and UDF on my machine. Which one is "native"?
Doesn't the OS your running deside what is allowed for it, therefore the OS name check is 'native'?
That's correct. So the fact that a particular OS can mount many different file systems is not a problem as far as "native" is concerned. In trying to redesign Boost.Filesystem to handle wide-character external file names, mounts of different file systems are a serious problem if some support wide-character names (NTFS, for example) and some don't (FAT). AFAICS, the implementation of a wide-character name request will have to determine that at runtime if wide-characters are supported by the actual file system, and act accordingly. --Beman