Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #6187: boost::filesystem::exists will thought a string is which include zero, is a file, exactly is the file is not exist.

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viboes — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:37:29 GMT

owner set to Beman Dawes
component None → filesystem

alexis.legoadec@… — Sat, 07 May 2016 09:10:44 GMT

Hello,

I have opened a pull-request with the fix here: https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/pull/28

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Beman Dawes — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:38:03 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → invalid

It isn't the job of class path to decide on validity of strings passed to it.

Asian character encodings may have embedded '\0' characters. Shift-JIS is an example, IIRC. If you know the encoding of a string that is going to be used as a path, you could check it for validity before passing it to a path.

Thanks,

--Beman