Re: Can't call isDir on linux on const object

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 20:11:45 UTC, Spacen wrote:
The same code works on windows DMD 1.65. But on linux:

It's because of caching. isDir on Linux calls a function with 
this comment:

        /++
            This is to support lazy evaluation, because doing 
stat's is
            expensive and not always needed.

            Try both stat and lstat for isFile and isDir
            to detect broken symlinks.
         +/
        void _ensureStatOrLStatDone()


Simple solution is to just take a plain DirEntry instead of "in 
DirEntry" so it isn't const.