Re: [boost] Re: Re: Any interest in a boost::glob() function?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-23 18:08:21

At 10:27 AM 11/23/2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
 >Rich Johnson wrote:
 >
 >> On another topic....
 >>
 >> I seem to recall a boost::filesystem 'is_equivalent_name()' or
 >> 'name_equals()' convenience function mentioned sometime over the
 >> last week or so.  There's  currently a fair bit of debate over 
character
 >> codings, etc.; this function would handle that.
 >
 >Thanks for the heads up. I skipped many of the 1200+ postings to the
 >Boost Devel list since I read it last...
 >
 >I think that I understand what you're talking about. The fact that
 >Win32 regards 'FileName' and 'filename' as equivalent file names
 >unless the file has the FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS attribute set,
 >right?

Not entirely. 'FileName' and 'filename' could be two distinct and separate 
files, and could have a variety of names. Use the new equivalent() function 
to determine path equivalence.

See http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/operations.htm#equivalent

We've already had one bug report involving subst drives; equivalence on 
Win32 systems is really tricky to determine.

--Beman