David Abrahams wrote:
Yeah. But IMO on cygwin boost::filesystem should handle both formats.
I don't think attempting this is a good idea. If boost::filesystem on Cygwin is documented as "accepts both Cygwin and Win32 path," I can construct a filesystem where at least one valid Win32 or Cygwin path will not be correctly accepted, and thus make a liar of the documentation. In particular the meaning of /dir is different between Cygwin and Win32. It is valid in both. However, I do not think it is necessary to accept Win32 paths in Cygwin mode, as that Cygwin file primatives are able to deal with "c:\\dir" correctly to begin with. In other words, Cygwin has intrinsic support for both types itself, without any special support from Boost. Aaron W. LaFramboise