At Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:15:24 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote:
recursive_directory_iterator currently always follows directory symlinks
It seems to me that whether or not this behavior is desirable is application dependent.
Thus I'd like to add an option to either following directory symlinks or not. Which should the default be?
Following symlinks by default avoids breaking existing code, so that's my mild preference, but I'm wondering if anyone has a strong argument for not following directory symlinks by default?
It might take extra logic on the user's part to avoid infinite recursions in a case where a directory symlinks an ancestor, so maybe it would make sense to have symlink-following be an explicit choice. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com