Re: [boost] filesystem/path behavior

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-21 08:43:12

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "Walter Landry" <wlandry_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:20060418.023941.104030760.walter_at_geodynamics.org...
>> Martin Wille <mw8329_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Sebastien Mirolo wrote:
>>>
>>> > terminate called after throwing an instance of
>>> > 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
>>> >    what():  boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "c++" in path: "/
>>> > usr/include/c++/4.0.0/cstring"
>>>
>>> See http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/path.htm#constructors
>>> and http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/portability_guide.htm
>>
>> Having been a user of filesystem for quite a while, I really think it
>> is time to turn off any default checking.  This is hardly the first
>> time that we have seen this kind of non-error cause a problem.
>
> The checking mechanism was removed for 1.34. 

In that case, I apologize for my screed. :(

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