Re: [Boost-users] Using filenames starting with a dot

From: Hagen Möbius (Hagen.Moebius_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-27 21:24:03

My observation regarding this issue is as follows:

boost::filesystem is about portability. Or more to the point: about 
portable paths. So it will check wether your path is portable to ALL 
systems it knows. As that includes systems which use the period as 
directory delimiter it is not a portable path component.

Here's a look at the documentation:

"portable_name = windows_name(name) && portable_posix_name(name), and 
first character not period or hyphen."

As portable_name is the default name_check function this will throw an 
exception. Define native_check or posix_check to make it POSIX only and 
thus allow the period at the beginning.

eg:

boost::filesystem::path filename_complete(basepath, nativ_check);

path /= filename;

Regards,

Hagen.