Re: [Boost-users] SIGABRT (Abort) On Debian with boost::filesystem::path append

From: Eric Hill (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-21 15:24:41

[snip]

> Parsing folder /home/daniel/test
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
>   what():  boost::filesystem::path: invalid name ".to" in path: ".to"
> Aborted
>
> Which seems a little clearer. The exception is thrown because ".to"
> isn't a portable path, so the solution is to write:
>
>     boost::filesystem::path message_to = folder /
>         boost::filesystem::path(".to", boost::filesystem::native);
>
> Which is pretty horrible so you might want to try setting a more lenient
> default name checker. I think you can do something like:

[snip]

> Life will be a lot easier with Boost 1.34 as the automatic name checking
> will be removed - but when it's going to be released is something of a
> mystery.
>
> As for why you're getting a SIGABRT instead of a nice error message, my
> uneducated guess is that either your build process is turning of the
> error handling or you have an exception safety error somewhere. If it's
> not the former then you'll probably want to look at the call stack at
> the point of the error.

Thanks for the information Daniel - when I added the native name checker  
to the file name, the problem did get resolved.  I'm not entirely sure why  
I was getting a SIGABRT, but at this point (now that it's working) I  
really don't care :)  Thanks again, Daniel.

Eric