Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: [filesystem] status() ifneitherfilenordirectory?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-09 08:27:38

Beman Dawes wrote:

> But if stat() doesn't report both S_ISDIR and S_ISREG true at the
> same time, there isn't any way to practically implement status(),
> even if you buy the argument that reporting both would be desirable.

S_ISREG is is_regular_file, not is_stream. /dev/urandom is not a regular 
file, but it is a stream, IIUC (a "character special file", probably, I 
don't have a POSIX system at the moment handy).

is_file specification aside, an implementation of the standard library is 
not required to be portable, so it can exploit whatever platform-specific 
information it wants, unless you want to _specifically disallow_ this in the 
specification of status().