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The Boost.Filesystem library provides facilities to manipulate files and directories, and the paths that identify them.

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Why does boost::filesystem::path::string() return by value on Windows and by reference on POSIX?

From boost/filesystem/path.hpp: # ifdef BOOST_WINDOWS_API const std::string string() const { [...] } # else // BOOST_POSIX_API // string_type is std::string, so there is no conversion const std::string& string()…
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C++: All boost path operations segfault (OSX / GCC)

I am getting consistent segfaults with almost any operation I am trying to perform with boost path. (Edit: It appears that all segfaulting functions are related to current_path()) Sample program: #include #include…
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C++: How do I ignore the first directory path when comparing paths in boost::filesystem?

I'm trying to compare two directories and find what files are different inside. So I'm using a boost::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator to add all contents of each directory to respective vectors. Then I sort each vector alphabetically and…
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Traversing a directory with boost::filesystem without throwing exceptions

I have a path to the directory, and I want to traverse through all of its sub-directories, collecting files' pathes by the way. namespace fs = boost::filesystem; std::vector traverse_if_directory(fs::path& f) { std::vector…
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Is boost::filesystem::directory_iterator invalidated by deletion?

I am iterating through a directory, and when an item matches some criteria, I delete it. Can I do it safely from within the loop, or to I have to save paths in an array and delete then later? I did not find a relevant information in…
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Missing Exception in Boost Process

I want to use Boost Process eventhough it has not been release yet. I did svn co svn://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/process/ boost-process added boost-process to include path (-I) and #included but compilation complains about…
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How to check if path leads to executable file?

I try to create some kind of file browser. I want to know if file under path is executable in a cross-platform way. How to do such thing with boost::filesystem?
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how to subtract one path from another?

So... I have a base path and a new path.New path contains in it base path. I need to see what is different in new path. Like we had /home/ and new path is /home/apple/one and I need to get from it apple/one. note - when I would create some path from…
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boost::filesystem recursively getting size of each file

Why does this code throw an error when the argument is a directory? Using boost::recursive_directory_iterator and using std::cout statements, I can see that it never prints a directory; only files. But, when I try to call…
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Why autoconf isn't detecting boost properly?

I am using autoconf to detect boost libraries, with the support of the autoconf-archive macros and they work fine with system-wide boost libraries, but fail if I manually compile boost in my home directory: sb@stephane:~/devel/spectra2$ ./configure…
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Boost::file_system: Checking error codes

Although I'm using C++11, this question is boost-related, since I'm processing errors from boost::file_system. In the following situation: try { // If p2 doesn't exists, canonical throws an exception // of No_such_file_or_directory …
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How can I determine the owner of a file or directory using boost filesystem?

Possible Duplicate: Get file's owner and group using boost I'd like to use boost::filesystem to determine which files and directories/ folders are owned by a particular user. I need to do this on both Linux (ext3) and Windows (NTFS)…
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boost filesystem::path constructor std::length_error

i am trying to iterate over a directory using Boost.Filesystem library. The problem is that when i try to instantiate a path object, i get an std::length_error with the message "string too long" with strings of any length, even for example…
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Problem linking Boost.Filesystem statically to a shared library

I'm building a shared library with GCC 4.5.2 and Boost 1.46.1 (compiled with --build-type=complete) and this is a command from Makefile which does the linkage part: $(CXX) -static -lboost_filesystem -fpic -shared $^ -o $@ Everything compiles fine…
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What is BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 3 analog for BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 2 path.native_file_string()?

So I try to port my old project (from boost 1.44 to 1.61) I found out that there is no path.native_file_string() in boost::filesystem v3... So what is analog for path.native_file_string() in boost::filesystem v3? (I do not want to use v2 any more…
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