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

From: Calderon Hector (hhcalderon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-21 21:18:30

I would actually expect conversion to "c:\mydata\" to be native in Windows. For example: "dir c:" will list the files in the working directory. If I wanted the list of files in the root directory of "c:", I have to type "dir c:\". Each logical drive has a current directory upon which the commands are operated. Even in the GUI, typing "x:" opens the current directory in drive "x:". Completing "x:" to "x:\" is not native to Windows. Perhaphs the only place where "x:" might go to "x:\" is in Windows explorer (and this is switch in the registry I believe). However, if you type "c:" in a "Save as" dialog, it opens the application's current directory in "c:".

++Hector C.

Matt England <mengland_at_[hidden]> wrote: 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:/'.

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