Re: [boost] [filesystem] "." directory-placeholder added

From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-13 16:38:48

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 6:27 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

> At 01:31 PM 6/12/2003, Daryle Walker wrote:
[SNIP]
>> Is it possible to override this and use "." or ".." as regular object 
>> names?
>
> No. Likewise there is no escape mechanism that allows you to include 
> "/" in a name.
>
> There are a bunch of reasons - but particularly it would be creating 
> names that will just be rejected by many (or even most) modern 
> operating systems.  What would be the point of that? It is the same as 
> with requests for allowing full URI syntax in paths; without any 
> mechanism in the operational functions allowing those paths, what 
> would be the point?
>

So users with platforms that could support those object names are out 
of luck?

Are these limitations mentioned in the docs?

[a few seconds pass...]

I just thought of something.  What happens on systems that don't 
support certain non-controversial characters?  Or what happens if the 
environment supports characters that are untypeable?  Some sort of 
escape mechanism may be required.  (The Unicode escapes may suffice, 
though.)

Daryle