"Martin" <adrianm@touchdown.se> wrote in message news:loom.20051228T091806-138@post.gmane.org...
4. A suggestion is to overload exists, is_directory etc for status flags ....
Status flags has morphed into a full-fledged file_status class, and, as you suggested, exists, is_directory, etc. have been overloaded. This makes user code much more readable and is much less error-prone, IMO. Thanks for the suggestion!
3. The documentation doesn't say how other_flag is supposed to work.
The docs now say: bool is_other(file_status s); Returns: return exists(s) && !is_regular(s) && !is_directory(s) && !is_symlink(s)
If an implementation adds more flags, will other_flag be set for these?
No. I'll update the docs to make that clear. Thanks, --Beman