Re: [boost] Boost::Filesystem

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost::Filesystem
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-16 19:27:05

On 16 Jun 2015 at 16:23, Amit Kumar wrote:

> Is there any functionality in boost::filesystem to identify local drives on
> Linux box.
> I want something similar to windows API *GetDriveType*().

Your post belongs in boost-users, not boost-dev, and even then Stack 
Overflow is more appropriate.

I don't believe Filesystem has such an API. Proposed Boost.AFIO has 
the statfs() call, but a completely portable solution that isn't 
broken in some way is tough. After all, what is a local drive really?

On Linux I'd ask /sys/block as a beginning and go from there. Note 
that POSIX, and Linux, has no concept of a local drive, especially as 
you can stitch together multiple physical volumes into virtual 
volumes using lvm2 etc.

Niall

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