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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-23 08:17:53

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

Were missing_target_error and not_found_error exception _types_, you could
derive one from the other. :-)