id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
9816	boost::filesystem::is_empty does not work for symbolic links on Windows	Nils Brinkmann <monsdar+boost@…>	Beman Dawes	"Hi,

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.

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.

I at first asked at Stackoverflow for some help:
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22668337/boostfilesystemis-empty-returns-false-for-symlinks Boost::filesystem::is_empty() returns false for Symlinks]

I also created a Github project which reproduces the problem:
[https://github.com/monsdar/BoostSymLinkError Github - BoostSymLinkError]"	Bugs	assigned	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost 1.55.0	Problem		windows, symlink, is_empty