IMHO, since the whole point of std.file is to wrap OS-specific APIs in
something OS-agnostic, the results of std.file.copy() should be as
consistent as possible across OS's. If you want to rely on the behavior
of a specific platform, then you should use that platform's API directly.
On 5/27/2010 3:31 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
Quick question: Should the functions in std.file have a common "Phobos
behaviour" across platforms, or should they have the default/expected
behaviour for each platform?
Example:
std.file.copy() for Windows uses the Windows API, and thus I assume it
behaves in the way Windows users expect. On POSIX, however, it uses a
home-brewed implementation, which does not behave completely like the
'cp' command. (See bug 3862, which is what got me thinking about this.)
-Lars
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