Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling inC++ looklike inthe future [was Always treat ... ]

Subject: Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling inC++ looklike inthe future [was Always treat ... ]
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-21 15:47:33

Nevin Liber wrote:
> On 20 January 2011 13:54, Sergey Cheban <s.cheban_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > On Windows, it is possible to create the filenames with \0 in the 
> > middle.
> > But I don't think that Boost should support them.
>
> Er, why not?

We can afford not to support those because the official Win32 API doesn't 
(undocumented kernel interfaces do). Not supporting file names that the user 
can easily create is another matter. :-)