Vladimir Prus <ghost <at> cs.msu.su> writes:
matthias wrote:
However I am getting a strange error when I start my app: When iterating through a directory I suddenly get the message: Aborted.
Most likely, an exception is thrown but is never caught. I suggest you wrap the entire function in a try/catch block and print the caught exception.
- Volodya
I found the error in the meantime by divide and conquer. It wasn't the function I posted which caused it, my apologies. I called boost::filesystem::file_size without checking if I am actually working on a "file" (at least in the boost::filesystem terminology) in some other function. This caused an exeption to be thrown. Frankly, I don't think this behaviour of file_size is appropriate. In UNIX, for example, directories are files too. Therefore, file_size should return 0 when called on a directory because it's not really an exceptional situation to call file_size on a directory (which, as said above, often is a file). Any comments? Best regards, Matthias