[Boost-users] [Filesystem] directory iteration throws

Subject: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] directory iteration throws
From: gast128 (gast128_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-06 11:24:50

Hello all,

I was writing a simple application to enumerate files sorted on their size. I 
used the recursive_directory_iterator for this task. However on my Windows XP 
machine the directory iteration stops because of a throwing constructor.

It is easy reproducable, by creating a directory with contents and remove all 
security attributes (except for the system account, leave there all 
permissions enabled) and use that directory for iteration, i.e. my c:\temp\bla 
directory contained 1 file and I removed the security attributes for the 
directory Bla.

Tracing thru the source code of Boost.FileSystem the directory is opened with 
a '::FindFirstFileA' call which returns an 'INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE', resulting 
in a throw. This stops further iteration of the directory.

Is there a way to work around this?