Re: [boost] [filesystem] size() on directory?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-03 11:33:34

At 05:20 PM 2/2/2004, Walter Landry wrote:
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >> How should size( "foo" ) behave if "foo" is a directory?
 >
 >What about symlinks?

Good question. The POSIX implementation just committed uses stat(). My 
inclination is that this is desirable, but I'm not a POSIX user so I could 
easily be wrong.

Opinions?

--Beman