Beman Dawes wrote:
At 10:27 AM 11/23/2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Johnson wrote:
On another topic....
I seem to recall a boost::filesystem 'is_equivalent_name()' or 'name_equals()' convenience function mentioned sometime over the last week or so. There's currently a fair bit of debate over character codings, etc.; this function would handle that.
Thanks for the heads up. I skipped many of the 1200+ postings to the Boost Devel list since I read it last...
I think that I understand what you're talking about. The fact that Win32 regards 'FileName' and 'filename' as equivalent file names unless the file has the FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS attribute set, right?
Not entirely. 'FileName' and 'filename' could be two distinct and separate files, and could have a variety of names. Use the new equivalent() function to determine path equivalence.
See http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/operations.htm#equivalent
We've already had one bug report involving subst drives; equivalence on Win32 systems is really tricky to determine.
Ok. Thanks, Beman. Angus