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From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-06-04 16:09:00


On 6/4/21 6:34 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> <rant>
>> Docker people seem to think of Docker images as of VMs while they are not.
>> Hence they consider it normal to build the image on one system and then run
>> it on another, with possibly older kernel. Well, this is wrong.
>> It doesn't work that way, and Boost.Filesystem is not the only piece of
>> software that will break because of that.
>> </rant>
>
> As Niall mentioned, it might be that Docker just doesn't support the syscalls,
> even when running on the same kernel.

This is a different case, and for that I added compile-time options to
disable some syscalls in Boost.Filesystem.


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