Re: [Filesystem] Directory entry caching

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-05-02 15:23:38

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:54 PM Chris Glover <c.d.glover_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 3:51 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> It's definitely abandoned. And incomplete, by the looks of it.
>
> Yes, seems so. If there's interest in finishing this work, I can take a look to see if I can commit to that, but if it was abandoned for some other reason (not breaking ABI maybe?) then I won't bother.
>
> Does anyone know the history?

I don't know the history but likely Beman didn't have time for it. ABI
is not maintained across Boost releases, so it is not the issue. I'm
not familiar with the proposal itself, so I don't know if there were
any issues with it.