RE: [boost] Re: Filesystem library: remove / etc

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-21 20:41:52

At 05:43 PM 3/21/2002, Dylan Nicholson wrote:

 >Just jumping in with an idea.
 >
 >Perhaps a good command to model remove on is the POSIX rm shell command.
 >rm on its own treats non-existence as an error.
 >rm -f however doesn't.  Maybe we need the equivalent of a 'force' option 
to
 >remove, or a force_remove, that deletes files even if they are read-only
 >(assuming they can be made deletable), and ignores non-existence.
 >
 >In fact in general there is much to be said for modelling a filesystem
 >library on POSIX shell commands (as well as the POSIX system calls,
 >although in general they aren't nearly as powerful).

I'll take a look.  Bedtime reading.

Thanks,

--Beman