Re: encapsulating directory operations

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 07:58:54 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 31.05.2025 um 23:42 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
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On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:20:33 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

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Easier to handle:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/directory_iterator.html

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If you’re wanting language-specific facilities, then see if you can
beat this <https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.walk>. For
one thing, notice how it gives you the choice of whether to follow
symlinks or not?

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Sth. like this:
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for( directory_entry const &de : recursive_directory_iterator( "\",
directory_options::follow_directory_symlink ) )
cout << de.path() << endl;

You need the dirfd functions to avoid certain potential security holes
on operations with symlinks.