id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5405	Filesystem does not handle the path prefix of windows correct	michael.kaes@…	Beman Dawes	"The filesystem V3 cannot handle the special windows prefix {{{\\?\}}} properly.
The resulting path and file names are wrong.

A simple example to reproduce the problem

{{{
boost::filesystem::path local_path(L""\\\\?\\C:\\"");
boost::filesystem::directory_iterator directoryContent(local_path);

const std::wstring name1 = directoryContent->path().filename().wstring();
std::wcout << ""Name 1 == "" << name1 << std::endl;

++directoryContent;

const std::wstring name2 = directoryContent->path().filename().wstring();
std::wcout << ""Name 2 == "" << name2 << std::endl;
}}}


The output should be the file names on the root folder of drive C.
In my case 
{{{
Name 1 == $Recycle.Bin
Name 2 == 00120.mpls
}}}

The observed names are
{{{
Name 1 == $Recycle.Bin
Name 2 == C:00120.mpls
}}}

The second name is not correct.
I traced it down to the root_directory_start function in the path.cpp.
Attached is a patch that solved my issue.

"	Bugs	closed	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost 1.46.1	Problem	fixed