Are std::filesystem::directory_iterator and/or std::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator guaranteed to return std::filesystem::directory_entry objects with paths relative to the base directory they were initialized with?
Or may they return entries with absolute paths?
Are directory_iterator and/or recursive_directory_iterator guaranteed to return relative paths?
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From Filesystem draft N4100:
The result of calling the path() member of the directory_entry object obtained by dereferencing a directory_iterator is a reference to a path object composed of the directory ar gument from which the iterator was constructed with filename of the directory entry appended as if by operator/=
So it seems that the answer is: the path is relative to the one that the iterator has been constructed with.
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