On 20 October 2010 11:42, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>wrote:
2010/10/20 Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com>:
Common knowledge. Windows is a single user system with multi-user functionality overlaid. All users have full access to C:\.
I'm afraid that isn't true. Search using google for "vista access to C drive".
If we disregard historical reasons for why things behave as they do on Windows, to me it's quite clear that C:\ (or the OS root drive) is not each user's $HOME path. They may or may not have write access outside their own My Documents (or Users) but that doesn't change anything. You can setup a NIX system that way too probably, allowing full access everywhere. $HOME would remain however. Are those people advocating for $HOME on Windows to be anything else than My Documents really Windows users? I've been trough development of fixing pre-Vista developed applications to work, and the times where one could just ignore access rights on Windows is long gone. IMO Boost.Filesystem should follow best practices for each supported platform, and using C:\ as default user folder or the obscure USERPROFILE is IMO not good practice on Windows. Christian