[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #5992: opening wide character string paths in memory-mapped file

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #5992: opening wide character string paths in memory-mapped file
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-07 15:08:12

#5992: opening wide character string paths in memory-mapped file
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 Reporter:  Jim Park <jim@…>                 |       Owner:  igaztanaga  
     Type:  Feature Requests                 |      Status:  new         
Milestone:  To Be Determined                 |   Component:  interprocess
  Version:  Boost 1.47.0                     |    Severity:  Problem     
 Keywords:  wide character support, windows  |  
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 Without support for wide character string paths, we cannot easily open
 files with Unicode paths in Windows. This makes interprocess/file_mapping
 practically unusable for Windows programming. A suggestion might be to
 abstract out the use of raw strings for paths by using filesystem.

 Without the fix, we are using Win32 API to open memory-mapped files and
 forking the code for other platforms.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5992>
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