id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
6884	Add functionality to enumerate filesystem roots	Erik Jensen <Erik.Jensen@…>	Beman Dawes	"Unlike POSIX systems, which root everything at '/', some systems (notably Windows) provide multiple filesystem roots.

In order to abstract this difference in a cross-platform way, I propose that a new function be added to boost::filesystem to return a list of path objects, one for each filesystem root. On a POSIX system, this would simply return ![""/""], but on Windows, it would return, e.g., [""C:/"", ""D:/""]. This would make it possible to implement something like a filesystem browser in a platform-independent manner.

There is precedence for this functionality in several cross-platform libraries, including Java (File.listRoots), Qt (QDir::drives), and Poco (Poco::Path::listRoots)."	Feature Requests	new	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost 1.49.0	Not Applicable			ulrich.eckhardt@…