Re: [boost] Filesystem path checking too strict?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-29 10:13:47

At 07:26 AM 9/29/2003, John Maddock wrote:

The bcp tool has recently stopped working - it now throws an exception from 
filesystem lib:

**** exception(205): std::exception: boost::filesystem::path: invalid name 
"c++boost.gif" in path: "../../../c++boost.gif"
******** errors detected; see standard output for details ********

Come on, surely c++boost.gif is a valid name?

It doesn't meet the POSIX standard for portable file names because of the 
'+' characters.

So that brings up the question of what characters we should allow in Boost 
file names?

--Beman