On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
The first beta release of Boost.Filesystem Version 3 is now available.
The documentation can be viewed at http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/v3/index.htm
The descriptions for portable_name() and portable_directory_name() appear to be at odds. portable_name() : ... && (name is "." or "..", and the first character not a period or hyphen) portable_directory_name(): ... && (name is "." or ".." or contains no periods) Should portable_name() be "... && (name is "." or "..", or contains no periods) && (first character not a hyphen)"? Maybe I'm missing something? Also, in the tut3.cpp tutorial code, there's no mention of the dangers of using "*it" inside the directory_iterator loop. IIRC, in previous Filesystem revisions, this would throw if you did not have adequate permissions to see the file to which "it" refers. Has this changed? If not, I think that you should either wrap the body of the loop in a try-catch block, or use one of the non-throwing function overloads, and indicate to the user what the exception safety concerns are. I think the tutorial code should exhibit enough robustness that the user can just cut-and-paste to get the basic code needed to use the library. Zach