Re: [boost] Filesystem path checking too strict?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-30 20:14:08

At 06:16 AM 9/30/2003, John Maddock wrote:
 >
 >> It doesn't meet the POSIX standard for portable file names because of 
the
 >> '+' characters.
 >
 >Darn, I guess we shouldn't have it in Boost then,

We probably need to look at other names, too. As I start to put more time 
into getting a release ready, I'll look at the inspect programs to make 
sure they report non-portable directory and file names.

 >... I've also discovered your
 >replacable name checking code now, so for now I've disabled all name
 >checking in the bcp utility (since it only deals with files that already
 >exist).

Yes, that's one of the prime cases where turning off name checking is 
useful. However, I keep running into situations where leaving it on turns 
up problems in names which were supposed to be portable.

--Beman