id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
13642	Strange behaviour of filesystem::relative on Windows	martin.apel@…	Beman Dawes	"The following code snippet behaves unexpected under Windows:

 
{{{
   path base(""C:\\Temp"");
   path contained (""c:\\temp\\test"");

   path result = relative(contained, base);

   std::cout << ""relative returns "" << result.generic_string() << ""\n"";
}}}

It returns an empty path, though the expected result would be something like "".\test"". This is due to a case sensitive comparison, which is not consistent with how Windows treats path names.

I understand that this is the way it is documented, but if Boost.Filesystem is understood to be an abstraction layer over different operating systems, this is definitely not the desired behaviour.

I have attached a patch, which fixes the problem.
"	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost 1.67.0	Problem		windows relative