On 02/09/2011 08:43 AM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
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.
+1
Thus I'd like to add an option to either following directory symlinks or not. Which should the default be?
*nix follows symlinks by default. One must use special APIs to recognize and inspect symlinks. I should think consistency across platforms would be good.
That isn't really true. There isn't any POSIX function for recursive directory walking. It is simply a matter of whether lstat or stat is used to check whether directory entries are themselves directories. As one example, GNU find does not follow symlinks by default.