Hi, I was trying the demo code from the filesystem library (searching for a file using the directory iterator). I noticed a strange behavior of the code. In the path I was searching I had a symbolic link, which was pointing to an unexisting file. The program throws now a exception with the following reason: boost::filesystem::is_directory: "/home/merck/CVS/test": No such file or directory Here 'test' is a link to some non exisitng file. It seems logical that the exception is thrown, however I can't garantee that there will never be tangling sym-links on the system. I would prefer if the library would have a option not to follow symlinks or handel this situation by itself. Regards Martin oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o Dr. Martin Merck o o Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik o o Am Hubland o o 97074 Wuerzburg o o Phone: +49 931 888 4933 Fax: +49 931 888 4603 o o Email: merck@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo