On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:46 PM, variadic.template < variadic.template@googlemail.com> wrote:
While playing around with boost::filesystem and the recursive_directory_iterator, I'm running into a infinite-recursion caused by symlinks. Not following symlinks would be, a solution, of course,
That's the usual solution. Use the no_push() member to tell the recursive_directory_iterator no to recurse into a directory.
but... So, is there a way to ascertain the path where the symlink is aiming at?
Version 3, in the sandbox, has just such a feature.
And a second question: I didn't find anything about permission-handling - are there any plans? In my eyes, this is something essential for a filesystem-library.
Not at the moment. We haven't figured out how to abstract away the differences between POSIX and Windows approaches to permissions. Any ideas appreciated. --Beman