On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 16:57:29 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:56:17 +0000
schrieb "Jonathan Marler" <[email protected]>:
I actually ran into this problem today when using the
dirEntries function in std.file. I was attempting to iterate
all the files on my C drive and I got an Access Denied error
which caused the DirIterator to throw an exception. There's
nothing I could do to catch the exception and continue. I'm
very glad people are aware of this problem and I'm glad you
are trying to do something about it.
Yep, that dirEntries Exception is quite the show stopper. You
need to be certain that you have access to all directories
that it may encounter, which makes it unusable for file system
roots, but also breaks way to easily with unreadable
directories in user directories when all you need is a list of
the _accessible_ files.
The bug reports so far:
std.file: dirEntries-range crashes, when hitting the system
folder "System Volume Information"
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12513
DirEntries throws in foreach
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12391
dirEntries throws when encountering a "long path" on windows
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967
Submitted my idea as a PR in phobos here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2655
