Re: [Boost-Users] Boost::Filesystem: Directory iterator and dangling links

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-22 05:55:15

Peter Klotz wrote:
>> Yes - in cases where there doesn't seem to be any way to abstract the
>> operation into a portable function it is better to leave it for an
>> operating system specific function.
>
> I agree.
> What about adding a "non portable" error code for filesystem_error,
> something like missing_target_error?
> Okay, this would be an implicit is_link() function :-)

Both missing_target_error and is_link() look entirely reasonable to me. I
see nothing non-portable here.