id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 13296 The directory-separator indicating the root-directory incorrectly handled by lexically_normal on windows peter@… Beman Dawes "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. Examples: {{{ cout << path(""/tmp/abc/def).lexically_normal() << endl; cout << path(""c:\\abc/def"").lexically_normal() << endl; }}} Output: {{{ /tmp\abc\def c:/abc\def }}} " Bugs new To Be Determined filesystem Boost 1.65.0 Problem