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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-22 19:47:25

At 06:55 AM 4/22/2003, Peter Dimov wrote:
 >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.

The portable error_code is just not_found_error, because some operating 
systems may not distinguish a broken link from other not found conditions.

is_link() sounds promising, but we would have to survey more operating 
systems first to be sure.

--Beman