id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 9060 Undocumented breaking change in boost:::filesystem::create_directories Nick Kochakian Beman Dawes There was a change in create_directories since 1.48.0 where it handles empty paths differently. In 1.48.0, the function would return false, but in recent versions it will throw an exception instead of returning false because the logic that handles empty paths was removed. This case is not covered in the unit tests. Bugs closed To Be Determined filesystem Boost 1.54.0 Problem fixed