Re: [boost] Is "+" safe for file names?

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:

Rene Rivera wrote:

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Is "+" safe to use across file systems? Hm, actually I'm fairly sure more than one "." is not safe. For example in the MVS systems?

The vanilla CD filesystem ISO 9660 don't like the plus sign, which is fairly annoying if you want to burn files containing it to a portable CD without archiving it first.

IIRC the restriction on CD file naming (among others) drove our naming rules, so we should ban '+' if we haven't done it already. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com