27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
1:44 p.m.
2010/1/27 Andrej van der Zee <mavdzee@yahoo.co.uk>:
Yeah that is what I thought, unfortunately. It would be a nice augmentation for boost file-system though, to be able to browse to compressed directories.
I'd really like that, since it would mean that all the filesystem-touching functions (not the path decomposition ones, for instance) would get a filesystem context. That would allow all sorts of possibly-interesting VFS operations, like merging directories transparently to consumers of a filesystem. It would also help make clearer the difference between, for example, a path simplification function that only looks at the path, and a path canonicalization function that needs to look at the filesystem too (for symlinks).