id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
3884,boost fstream 'enforces' in AND out mode. It should be be possible to open a read-only file using fstream.,Sachin Garg <schngrg@…>,Beman Dawes,"boost fstream 'enforces' in AND out mode by adding both in and out flags to the user specified file open mode.

Check boost\filesystem\fstream.hpp line 479, it does:

  mode | std::ios_base::in | std::ios_base::out

This makes it impossible to use fstream object to open a file for only reading or writing. This is especially troublesome when trying to open a read-only file as open call will fail with access denied error.

Fix: fstream should not modify 'mode' value and use the user specified value as is.",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.41.0,Problem,fixed,,schngrg@…