id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 3185,absolute path error,tmmikolajczyk@…,Beman Dawes,"I have the following function that checks if a particular path is absolute or relative: bool isPathAbsolute(const std::string& path) { return !boost::filesystem::path(path).root_directory().empty(); } Seems that it works fine for the following paths: ""/"" absolute ""/root"" absolute ""///"" absolute ""////"" absolute However, for unknown reason function says that the path ""//"" is not absolute. See attached very simple code that presents this problem. ",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.40.0,filesystem,Boost 1.37.0,Problem,invalid,filesystem absolute path,