Re: [boost] [filesystem] temp_dir_path()

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] temp_dir_path()
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-19 06:54:21

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Domagoj Saric <dsaritz_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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>> Other than that, I guess we just wait for tests to cycle.
>
> Would it be perhaps possible to provide a lower-level function (even in the
> detail namespace) that uses a plain char buffer and an error code, that is
> free of std::vectors, std::strings, boost::paths, system::error_codes and
> other things one might not want to pay for (especially if one does not use
> them otherwise) just to make a system API call..? The 'proper' version can
> then wrap the thinner one...

It would be technically possible, of course, but ...

What you are really asking for, I think, is a C language interface or
something pretty close to that.

I could have designed the library that way, but didn't want to add a
third way for users to do things, and didn't want to take on the
increased documentation, test, etc, workload.

--Beman