RE: [boost] Re: New design proposal for boost::filesystem

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-02 08:31:46

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> At 01:53 PM 8/30/2004, Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
>  >My idea on this was (and still is) that it is possible to convert
>  >a relative path to an absolute path (automatically) by adding an
>  >absolute path object reference to the relative path object.
> 
> Yes, as long as you know the absolute path reference. Is the absolute
> path reference known for all operating systems? I'm not sure about 
> that. For example, there have been multi-rooted systems that didn't 
> have a concept of "current drive". How would that work?
<snip>

Further, I know of one OS that supports directories but not a current
directory: Windows CE.  All paths passed to its filesystem functions
must be absolute.