id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
412	remove_all problems on dangling symlinks	cxdunn	beman_dawes	"{{{
remove_all() fails on dangling symlinks, and throws
exception when they are in subdirs.
<pre>
#include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem/exception.hpp>

#include <iostream>                        // for std::cout
using namespace std;
namespace fs = boost::filesystem;

int main(){
  system(""rm -rf foo1 foo2 foo3"");
  system(""ln -s nowhere foo1"");
  system(""mkdir foo2; touch foo2/blank; echo apple >
foo2/apple"");
  system(""mkdir foo3; ln -s nowhere foo3/dangle"");
  try {
    fs::remove_all(""foo1""); //fine, but no deletion
    fs::remove_all(""foo2""); //fine
    fs::remove_all(""foo3""); //error
  } catch (fs::filesystem_error const& exc){
    cerr <<""ERROR:"" <<exc.what() <<endl;
  }
  cerr << fs::exists(""foo1"") << "","" <<
fs::symbolic_link_exists(""foo1"") <<endl;
  cerr << fs::exists(""foo2"") << "","" <<
fs::symbolic_link_exists(""foo3"") <<endl;
  cerr << fs::exists(""foo3"") << "","" <<
fs::symbolic_link_exists(""foo2"") <<endl;
  return 0;
}
</pre>
Result:
<pre>
ERROR:boost::filesystem::remove: ""foo3"": Directory not
empty
0,1
0,0
1,0
</pre>

Also note that the post-condition is violated for foo1.
}}}"	Bugs	closed		filesystem	None		Out of Date