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fix failure to remove dangling symbolic link (Walter Landry)

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[SVN r26064]
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Beman Dawes
2004-11-01 21:09:25 +00:00
parent 931e8831b1
commit bc80bd4084
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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src/operations_posix_windows.cpp
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@@ -605,9 +605,12 @@ namespace boost
BOOST_FILESYSTEM_DECL bool remove( const path & ph )
{
if ( exists( ph ) )
{
if ( exists( ph )
# ifdef BOOST_POSIX
|| symbolic_link_exists( ph ) ) // handle dangling symbolic links
{
// note that the POSIX behavior for symbolic links is what we want;
// the link rather than what it points to is deleted
if ( std::remove( ph.string().c_str() ) != 0 )
{
int error = fs::detail::system_error_code();
@@ -619,6 +622,8 @@ namespace boost
"boost::filesystem::remove", ph, error ) );
}
# else
)
{
if ( is_directory( ph ) )
{
if ( !::RemoveDirectoryA( ph.string().c_str() ) )