Re: [boost] defined(__CYGWIN__) test in boost.filesystem

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-29 16:42:58

At 02:52 PM 11/28/2003, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

 >The filesystem library seems to treat CYGWIN as a "Windows" platform
 >rather than a POSIX platform.  It seems this is incorrect behavior.

Hum... I'm not sure I understand your concern. We still want Windows 
behavior like "c:/foo" being considered a valid native path, even though 
the compile happened to be gcc/cygwin.

Or are you saying that there is some use case on Windows, such as when 
running under bash, where you wouldn't want "c:/foo" to be considered a 
valid native path?

--Beman