I'm writing a small program with filesystem and I needed to check for symbolic links so I can avoid processing them. I noticed the symbolic_link_exists method and, like all good programmers, didn't read the docs b/c I was sure it didn't do what I needed. So I set about writing a function that would and when I looked at the filesystem implementation I realized I was wrong. I was thinking that symbolic_link_exits would check that a symbolic link points to a valid file -- essentially following the symlink. Any reason why this funtion isn't called is_symlink to match the is_directory call? Also, in the code I'm writing I need to only process regular files. So it would be nice to write: if (is_file(my_path)) { //do stuff } where is_file is defined as follows: // equivalent of if (-d path) in perl // returns !is_directory(p) && !is_symlink(p); bool is_file(fs::path p); Or maybe it could be is_regular_file or is_plain_file if we want to be verbose. Seems like this would be handy to have in the filesystem lib. I can probably be talked into supplying patches ;-) Thoughts? Jeff