Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
Peter Dimov and others have also argued that the default is wrong, and I'm sympathetic to their arguments. Some people may believe the default should be "native" rather "no_check".
If I so desired, I could mount HFS+, BeFS, JFS, FFS, BFS, ADFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS, ext2/3, XFS, UMSDOS, Reiserfs, ISO 9660, and UDF on my machine. Which one is "native"?
If the intent is make sure that all paths can actually be accessed on the machine, then you don't need to do any checks. The operating system does that for you. If you are not actually opening files, then perhaps you don't need this check anyway?
Besides, doing any checking implies a (perhaps mild) performance hit, and I don't want to have to jump through hoops to get rid of something I don't need.
I've said it before, but I always found the checking to be much more of a hindrance than a help. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com