https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583 <p> boost::interprocess::file_lock is unable to handle paths with wide character filenames. </p> <p> This feature is already commented in the list of future improvements </p> <p> I attach one patch to add this support for Windows platform (you can use boost::filesystem::c_str() and it will hide if it is char* or wchar_t* for you :)) </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583 Trac 1.4.3 jmalo@… Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:14:35 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583 <ul> <li><strong>attachment</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">boost_interprocess_file_lock_wchar.patch</span> </li> </ul> <p> Patch for support of wide character filenames in boost::interprocess::file_lock </p> Ticket jmalo@… Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:16:51 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9583#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <span class="trac-author">Ion Gaztañaga</span> </li> <li><strong>component</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">None</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">interprocess</span> </li> </ul> Ticket