Re: the first version of abstract path manipulation class (interface)

From: jan_langer (jan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-24 13:28:49

--- In boost_at_y..., "Jani Kajala" <jani_at_s...> wrote:
> > - There are more attributes available, via stat(), under Unix 
than you have
> > accessors for. What if I want to know whether the sticky bit is 
set?
> 
> struct stat buf;
> stat( p.norm_path().c_str(), &buf );
> ...
> 
> > - There is no information available on file permissions.
> 
> Neither has C or C++. :)

hi, i think it would be better to separate the filesystem stuff in 
several, independant classes, since there is already a quite complete 
system for files or directories attribute access for posix in the 
yahoogroups files section.
you should keep the attribute things out of the pathname and adopt 
the existing attribute things to win32 (which i failed to do ;-).

why not create these four things
- a pathname class
- a directory entry
- a directory iterator
- and a set of attributes
and make them interact in the quite obvious way. nearly all of these 
components are already written in your project or in the filesystem 
files in the vault (subdirectory filesystem).

a namespace boost::filesystem would be, in my opinion, also good.

quite a few suggestions to prevent a new resultless try to get these 
things done. 
regards

-- 
jan langer
jan_at_[hidden]