Re: [boost] BUG in filesystem

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 16:13:45

At 01:56 PM 10/31/2004, Walter Landry wrote:
 >"Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >>
 >> Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
 >> following locations:
 >>
 >>     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
 >>     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
 >>     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip
 >>
 >> These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are
 >> the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still
 >> unaware of (including problems with archives preparation), or, if
 >> there are none, to confirm that pending a few issues below, we are
 >> finally ready to release.
 >
 >In libs/filesystem/src/operations_posix_windows.cpp around line 600
 >the remove function
 >
 >    BOOST_FILESYSTEM_DECL bool remove( const path & ph )
 >    {
 >      if ( exists( ph ) )
 >      {
 >      ...
 >
 >will not delete dangling symlinks.  Instead, the exists() line should
 >be replaced with
 >
 >      if ( exists( ph ) || symbolic_link_exists ( ph ) )

Fixed in both main trunk and RC_1_32_0.

Thanks!

--Beman