"James Gregory" <james.jrg@gmail.com> wrote in message news:beb51c26050505041574b98d0@mail.gmail.com...

http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/exception.htm begins by saying:

"The header provides class filesystem_error, publicly derived from std::runtime_error"

I think this is wrong, isn't it publically derived from std::exception?

You are right that there is a clash. But it seems to me std::runtime_error should be the base class, so it is the implementation that is wrong. Comments? --Beman