Georg Baum wrote: > It turns out that the boost::filesystem::native path check is unusable, > because it disallows absolute paths on unix and spaces on windows.
How did you find this out? By testing? I searched the boost docs, and found next to nothing about fs::native. > Therefore we have to go back to the exception solution (but a slightly > better one). This goes in tomorrow unless I get objections. Great. Thanks. Jürgen