From: "Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 08:35 AM 12/16/2002, Peter Dimov wrote: > > >To clarify: the current situation requires the filesystem library to > >interpret system-specific error codes. Adopting the POSIX values would > >eliminate that need on some important platforms, with no downsides. > > Just to be sure that I understand your proposal, are you saying that the > library's not_directory_error should have the same numerical value as the > POSIX ENOTDIR macro?
Yes. > Is there any practical way to do that without including <cerrno> in the > exception.hpp header? No, I think there isn't. :-) Not all implementations agree on the value of ENOTDIR, unfortunately. I think that we also need to consider the problem of translating a filesystem_error to a localized error message. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
