Re: [boost] Re: Assorted filesystem improvements

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-04 12:41:09

At 04:12 PM 11/3/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >>...
 >> It would be possible to maintain the path exactly as entered, rather
 >> than converting to canonical form.
 >
 >For what it's worth (not much probably), my intuition tells me that
 >preserving the native form of a path is the right way to do it.

That was my reaction too. That approach is information preserving.

But there may be times when users require the canonical form. So a way to 
obtain or force canonical form needs to be provided too.

--Beman