id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2657	Feature request: readlink, nlink, copy_symlink, copy_directory, copy	Beman Dawes	Beman Dawes	"Walter Landry writes,

I have recently upgraded from 1.32 to the current prerelease, and it
feels like filesystem is missing a few convenience functions.

  1) readlink: There is a way to create a symlink, but then no way to
     query it later.

  2) nlink: Similarly, we can create a hard link, but can not query
     its link count.

  3) copy_symlink: Note that this requires readlink in order to
     function.

  4) copy_directory: create_directory creates directories with the
     mode S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO. That seems like a security hole
     waiting to happen. This would at least provide a way of
     inheriting access properties.

  5) copy(): This would check what the first argument is and invoke
     the appropriate function (copy_file, copy_symlink,
     copy_directory).

Except for nlink, I have already implemented all of these functions
because I needed them. Is there any interest in getting these
functions into the filesystem library?

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry_at_[hidden]
"	Feature Requests	closed	Boost 1.38.0	filesystem	Boost 1.37.0	Problem	fixed		wlandry@…