https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9816 <p> Hi, </p> <p> I'm using boost::filesystem::is_empty() to check if configuration files I'm using are empty. Due to our software deployment these files are mostly symbolic links created with the Windows 7 internal mklink command. </p> <p> I've used Boost 1.46.1 in the past for this and everything worked fine. Lastly I upgraded to 1.55.0 and found out that is_empty does not work anymore. </p> <p> I at first asked at Stackoverflow for some help: <a class="ext-link" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22668337/boostfilesystemis-empty-returns-false-for-symlinks"><span class="icon">​</span>Boost::filesystem::is_empty() returns false for Symlinks</a> </p> <p> I also created a Github project which reproduces the problem: <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/monsdar/BoostSymLinkError"><span class="icon">​</span>Github - BoostSymLinkError</a> </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9816 Trac 1.4.3 Beman Dawes Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:04:38 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9816#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9816#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">new</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">assigned</span> </li> </ul> <p> Also see <a class="assigned ticket" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9824" title="#9824: Bugs: boost::filesystem::is_empty() doesn't work with symlinks on Windows (assigned)">#9824</a> </p> Ticket