Re: [boost] Filesystem: remove_all should not follow symlinks

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-01 11:45:44

At 04:59 PM 11/29/2003, Walter Landry wrote:

 >The default should be to resolve symlinks, much like POSIX stat.
 >Since it is mostly POSIX programmers who are going to have to deal
 >with symlinks, it is best not to make defaults gratuitously different.

Yes, I'm very much in agreement with that. Any changes to interfaces need 
to default to usual resolve symlinks behavior.

--Beman