[Boost-users] file-system "system_complete()" and C:/

From: Matt England (mengland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-21 20:43:10

The following is a note of my developers that was attached to a bug close 
report.  Is this special check for to convert "x:" to "x:/" a good practice 
for the Boost file-system library usage?  Is there a better way to do this 
and/or are we missing something?

-Matt

The boost system_complete() function is used to convert relative paths into
absolute paths.  For some reason, boost interprets 'c:' as an incomplete path,
and the windows boost behavior is to initially complete the path to the
working directory.  In other words 'c:' was becoming (in my case)
'c:/mydata/'.

I added a check in Client.cpp to see if the --get parameter is equal to
'x:' and if it is, convert it to 'x:/'.