Re: [boost] [filesystem] On POSIX, any reliable way to find file size?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-01 22:10:46

At 06:03 PM 2/1/2004, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

 >As far as the name ``file_offset_type,'' perhaps the name
 >``file_size_type'' would be better (since size_type is used in the
 >standard library for container offsets and size).

I'm having second thoughts about the typedef and the size() return type.

intmax_t would be simpler, both to implement and understand.

--Beman