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

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-24 03:32:44

Beman Dawes wrote:

> 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.

Ok. Thanks, Beman.

Angus