Re: boost::filesystem::perms on Windows

From: Dominique Devienne (ddevienne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-05-07 09:49:57

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:54 AM Gavin Lambert via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 7/05/2020 03:45, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > Hi. I'm not having any luck with finding out whether a folder is
>  writable or not,
>
> IIRC, it only looks at the basic file attributes (in this case, the
> "read only" checkbox), and doesn't check the ACL at all.
>

Thanks Gavin.

OK. Disappointing, but I get it. I'll soon be able to use C++17, so I'll
give the
std::filesystem version a try, to see if it can get it right, since
implemented by
Microsoft itself this time. We'll see. --DD