Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #13296: The directory-separator indicating the root-directory incorrectly handled by lexically_normal on windows https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/13296 <p> According to the documentation the result for lexically_normal should contain backslashes on windows. This is not the case for the directory-separator representing the root-directory. </p> <p> Examples: </p> <pre class="wiki">cout &lt;&lt; path("/tmp/abc/def).lexically_normal() &lt;&lt; endl; cout &lt;&lt; path("c:\\abc/def").lexically_normal() &lt;&lt; endl; </pre><p> Output: </p> <pre class="wiki">/tmp\abc\def c:/abc\def </pre> en-us Boost C++ Libraries /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/13296 Trac 1.4.3