[Boost-users] [filesystem] support for reading symlinks?

Subject: [Boost-users] [filesystem] support for reading symlinks?
From: Nils Krumnack (nils_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-17 10:38:24

Hi all,

I was wondering whether there was any support for reading the contents  
of a symlink in the filesystem library, i.e. the path to the file it  
points to.  I saw that back in 2006 somebody submitted a patch that  
would (among other things) do this.  However the patch seems never to  
have made it into the main trunk.

Of course that is fairly easy to implement that myself, but if there  
is a standard implementation I'd rather use that.

Thanks in advance,
Nils