https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96222
Bug ID: 96222 Summary: std::filesystem::directory_iterator shares state Product: gcc Version: 9.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: sogartary at yahoo dot com Target Milestone: --- $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:hsa OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 9.3.0-11ubuntu0~18.04.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-9 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-11ubuntu0~18.04.1) OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Linux 5.3.0 ------------------- I don't know if this is supposed to be a bug, but I was surprised to find out that std::filesystem::directory_iterator has a shared state. For example the below code would advance both iterators. std::filesystem::directory_iterator it("some-path"); std::filesystem::directory_iterator it2 = it; ++it2;