On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:54 AM Gavin Lambert via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On 7/05/2020 03:45, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> Hi. I'm not having any luck with finding out whether a folder is writable or not,

IIRC, it only looks at the basic file attributes (in this case, the
"read only" checkbox), and doesn't check the ACL at all.

Thanks Gavin.

OK. Disappointing, but I get it. I'll soon be able to use C++17, so I'll give the

std::filesystem version a try, to see if it can get it right, since implemented by

Microsoft itself this time. We'll see. --DD