[boost] Re: Possible regression in filesystem 1.31.rc1 from 1.30.2

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-20 05:00:29

Forgot to mention that this is on a windows system (probably obvious 
from the directories I'm looking at), WinXP Pro SP 1.

Cheers

Russell

Russell Hind wrote:
> I have code that does this something similar to this:
> 
> boost::filesystem::path p("C:\\Documents and Settings", 
> boost::filesystem::native);
>     p /= "russell";
>     p /= "My Documents";
> 
> Under 1.30.2, this worked fine.  Under 1.31.0.rc1, this fails with 
> exception saying that "My Documents" is invalid name.  If I use the 
> filesystem::native again, then it works correctly.
> 
> boost::filesystem::path p("C:\\Documents and Settings", 
> boost::filesystem::native);
>     p /= "russell";
>     p /= boost::filesystem::path("My Documents", 
> boost::filesystem::native);
> 
> Is this intended with the 'improved checking for directory and file name 
> portability'.  Are spaces nolonger allowed in portable path names?  This 
> seems fairly limiting to me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Russell
> 
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