[Boost-users] boost::filesystem -- handling dead symlinks

From: Matthias Kaeppler (nospam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-20 05:28:23

Hello,

I wonder if there is any means of telling 
boost::filesystem::directory_iterator to skip broken symlinks. It's sort 
of an annoyance working with them, since operations like is_directory 
will throw when invoked on a broken symlink.
I am keeping a vector of boost::filesystem::pathS, and as soon as I 
operate on a broken symlink, an exception will be thrown. I do catch it, 
but that doesn't really help since the program will return from the 
method where the exception was thrown. I would find it much more 
convenient to simply skip these broken files, instead of jumping out of 
the procedure (IMO it's not even exceptional behavior, dead symlinks are 
pretty common).

Any idea what I can do about this?

-- 
Matthias Kaeppler