[Boost-users] boost::filesystem exception not caught on MacOS X

From: Lothar May (L-MAY_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-24 15:27:01

Hi,

I have a strange problem that an exception thrown by a boost::filesystem directory_iterator is not caugth on MacOS X. Please consider the following code:

("const string &dir" is a parameter)

bool retVal = true;
try
{
        directory_iterator i(dir);
        directory_iterator end;

        while (i != end)
        {
                // do something
                ++i;
        }
} catch (...)
{
        retVal = false;
}

While this works perfectly on Windows and Linux (the exception is caught fine), on MacOS I get the following:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::basic_filesystem_error<boost::filesystem::basic_path<std::string, boost::filesystem::path_traits> >'
 what():  boost::filesystem::basic_directory_iterator constructor
Abort trap

The program runs fine (withouth the trap) if I comment out the upper lines.

I use the boost 1.34.0 lib built as universal binary on MacOS 10.5, according to the instructions at http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMakeConfigAndBuild

I link to the static non-debug mt version of boost_filesystem. Exceptions within my program are caught fine, just this boost exception is not caught. The program is also compiled as non-debug.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards,

Lothar