[boost] Re: [filesystem] Operations predicates

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-03 12:40:36

Beman,

Beman Dawes wrote:
> I've completed an analysis of expectations for the exists() and is_xxx() 
> family of functions, and the previously suggested status() and 
> symlink_status() functions.
> 
> See http://www.esva.net/~beman/filesystem_operations_predicates.htm
> 
> Thanks to Peter Dimov, Rob Stewart, and Jeff Garland for their 
> suggestions. Errors are mine alone.
> 
> Comments?

Hmm, what's the benefit of having symlink_status() and status() ? 
Wouldn't one function suffice that sets the symlink flag when a symlink 
is encoutered on the way. I.e.

symlink_flag | directory_flag

identifies a symlink pointing to a directory

symlink_flag | not_found_flag

identifies a symlink pointing to a non existing file/dir

and so on ...

Thomas

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