Re: [boost] Re: Name checking in filesystem

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-03 17:17:43

At 08:31 AM 10/3/2004, Russell Hind wrote:
 >Walter Landry wrote:
 >>
 >> If I so desired, I could mount HFS+, BeFS, JFS, FFS, BFS, ADFS, FAT,
 >> VFAT, NTFS, ext2/3, XFS, UMSDOS, Reiserfs, ISO 9660, and UDF on my
 >> machine.  Which one is "native"?
 >>
 >
 >Doesn't the OS your running deside what is allowed for it, therefore the
 >OS name check is 'native'?

That's correct. So the fact that a particular OS can mount many different 
file systems is not a problem as far as "native" is concerned.

In trying to redesign Boost.Filesystem to handle wide-character external 
file names, mounts of different file systems are a serious problem if some 
support wide-character names (NTFS, for example) and some don't (FAT). 
AFAICS, the implementation of a wide-character name request will have to 
determine that at runtime if wide-characters are supported by the actual 
file system, and act accordingly.

--Beman