From 4966d1b8224258f43483a64acdf7ac61f573aa0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Schuemann Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 06:32:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated readme. --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 867d1b4..8c10d33 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -215,6 +215,12 @@ as I feel it is a bug to report no error on a `create_directory()` or `create_di where a regular file of the same name prohibits the creation of a directory and forces the user of those functions to double-check via `fs::is_directory` if it really worked. +Update: The more intuitive approach to directory creation of treating a file with that name as an +error is also advocated by the newer paper +[WG21 P1164R0](http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1164r0.pdf) +and GCC by now switched to following its proposal +([GCC #86910](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86910)). + ### Not Implemented Besides this still being work-in-progress, there are a few cases where