Greetings, I have come across an annoying problem with the filesystem library. I have wrapped filesystem with Swig so that I can call it from python. I had to rewrite the filesystem::path implementation a little because Swig can't handle nested classes. In any case, once I got that sorted out, I wanted to do something like p=path(".bar") which doesn't work because filenames starting with a period are not allowed by the default name checking routine. Argh. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to change the default name checker from python. If I worked at it long enough, I could probably work it out. But I am sure that I don't want to have to run something like path.default_name_check(no_check) at the beginning of every 10 line script. It is a particular piece of functionality (name checking) that just gets in the way. I would wager that most people using boost::filesystem from scripts would not want to have to deal with it, since it is completely different from every other portable, cross platform filesystem API. So to make a long story short, I think the default for boost::filesystem should be not to check for "portable" paths. This is different from a position I took earlier, where I thought that it is ok if I only have to set it once at the beginning. That is acceptable for large programs, but not for small ones. Regards, Walter Landry wlandry@ucsd.edu