std::experi...em::is_other(3)

💅 std::experimental::filesystem::is_other 💅

okay bestie, welcome to std::experimental::filesystem::is_other — this one's from the C++ Standard Libary manual (yes, that's literally the manual name up top, one-B "Libary" and all, we are not editing the source, periodt). It's a filesystem TS situation, so keep that in mind.

---

🌸 NAME 🌸

std::experimental::filesystem::is_other — checks whether a thing is a file of other type. Like, the file exists, but it's not a regular file, not a directory, and not a symlink. That vibe.

---

✨ Synopsis ✨

Defined in header <experimental/filesystem>
bool is_other( file_status s );                 (1) (filesystem TS)
bool is_other( const path& p );                 (2) (filesystem TS)
bool is_other( const path& p, error_code& ec ); (3) (filesystem TS)

Checks if the given file status or path corresponds to a file of type other type. That is, the file exists, but is neither regular file, nor directory nor a symlink.

• 1) — Equivalent to exists(s) && !is_regular_file(s) && !is_directory(s) && !is_symlink(s).
• 2) — Equivalent to is_other(status(p)).
• 3) — Equivalent to is_other(status(p, ec)). Returns false and sets ec to an appropriate error code if an error occurs. Otherwise, ec is cleared with a call to ec.clear().

---

🎀 Parameters 🎀

• s — file status to check
• p — path to examine
• ec — error code to store the error status to

---

🦋 Return value 🦋

true if the given path or file status corresponds to a other file, false otherwise. (Yes, "a other file" — we're keeping the source's exact phrasing, no cap.)

---

🔥 Exceptions 🔥

• 1,3) — noexcept specification: noexcept
• 2) — Throws filesystem_error if an error occurs. The error is constructed with p as an argument. The error code is set to an appropriate error code for the error that caused the failure.

---

👑 See also 👑

This section is incomplete 😭 (that is literally all it says, bestie).

---

🌈 Categories 🌈

• Noindexed pages
• unconditionally noexcept
• Todo without reason

---

🧚 Hidden categories 🧚

• Pages with unreviewed unconditional noexcept template
• Pages with unreviewed noexcept template

---

cute sign-off: source/version is http://cppreference.com, date is 2024.06.10, and the page is std::experi...em::is_other(3). mwah 💋