Re: [Boost-users] filesystem::equivalent does not work for UNC paths on Windows

From: Daniel Krügler (dsp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-11 09:33:43

Daniel Krügler wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Its seems as if the Windows implementation of filesystem::equivalent
> can't handle UNC paths.
> 
> While Windows is usually quite tolerant concerning the path separator
> / versus \, CreateFile* seems not to understand an UNC path containing
> // instead of \\.
> 
> My proposal to fix that is to replace the call of the string() member 
> function by the native_file_string() member function.
> 
> What do you think?

I understand now, why nobody answers. I found out, that the problematic 
boost version was 1.32 where the final ::stat check caused the problem...

Nice weekend for everyone,

Daniel