id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
897,exists() throws exeption on existing but locked file on wind,Hartmut Kaiser,Beman Dawes,"{{{
boost::filesystem::exists(somepath) throws an exception from when 'somepath' exists but is locked by some other process (at least on Windows).

A simple way to reproduce the effect is:

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

int main()
{
    boost::filesystem::path p(""C:\\pagefile.sys"");
    try {
        boost::filesystem::exists(p);
    }
    catch (...) {
        std::cerr << ""Ooops..."" << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

Throwing an exception doesn't seem to be the right thing here, since the file actually exists, so I'ld expect to get a 'true' back from exists().

}}}",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.35.0,filesystem,None,Showstopper,fixed,,