id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 8708,surprising element segmentation,Dave Abrahams,Beman Dawes,"I was shocked today to find that this fails: {{{#!cpp assert( boost::starts_with( boost::filesystem::path(""/website/public_html/""), boost::filesystem::path(""/website/""))); }}} The reason is that the 2nd path has 3 elements, {{{""/""}}}, {{{""website""}}}, and {{{"".""}}}. I found that last one especially surprising.",Bugs,new,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.52.0,Problem,,,