RE: [boost] Problems with filesystem library on Linux

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-14 20:16:41

At 06:07 PM 8/14/2002, Jeff Garland wrote:

 >
 >>  >    fs::path start("/home");
 >>                      ^^^^^^^^
 >> Change this to:
 >>
 >>       fs::path start("/home", fs::system_specific);
 >>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >
 >
 >Ok, that worked.  So what would be the generic form?

There isn't any generic form at the moment. "/" will be fine if we want to 
allow it, but I just don't know yet if the concept is portable.

Ditto "~".

To be portable, it isn't 100% required that all OS's have exactly the 
"root" directory or "home" directory concept.  Several popular 
(multi-million user) operating systems don't.

But what would be required is a specification of reasonable behavior which 
an implementor could apply for operating systems which don't themselves 
supply directories matching these concepts.

Anyone out there familiar with, say, OpenMVS?  Is there a reasonable 
interpretation of the "root" concept on all filesystems for that OS?

--Beman