std::filesystem::is_other(3)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

std::filesystem::is_other — literally what it says on the tin, std::filesystem::is_other 🎀

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✨ Synopsis ✨

Defined in header <filesystem>. Here's the whole squad, verbatim, no edits bestie:

bool is_other( std::filesystem::file_status s ) noexcept;
(1) (since C++17)
bool is_other( const std::filesystem::path& p );
(2) (since C++17)
bool is_other( const std::filesystem::path& p, std::error_code& ec
(3) (since C++17)
) noexcept;

So what's the vibe check here? It checks if the given file status or path corresponds to a file of type other type. 💅

Which means: the file exists, but it's neither a regular file, nor a directory, nor a symlink. It's giving "mystery guest at the party" 🦋

1. Equivalent to exists(s) && !is_regular_file(s) && !is_directory(s) && !is_symlink(s).
2. 3. Equivalent to is_other(status(p)) or is_other(status(p, ec)), respectively.

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🫶 Parameters

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

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👑 Return value

true if the file indicated by p or if the type indicated s refers to a file that is not regular file, directory, or a symlink, false otherwise. Slay. ✨

The non-throwing overload returns false if an error occurs. no cap.

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😭 Exceptions

Any overload not marked noexcept may throw std::bad_alloc if memory allocation fails. brb crying 💀

2, 3) Sets a std::error_code& parameter to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.clear() if no errors occur.

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🙈 Example

This section is incomplete.

Reason: no example

(it's giving "the homework you forgot to do" ngl 🍓)

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🌈 See also

• status — determines file attributes
• symlink_status — determines file attributes, checking the symlink target
  • (C++17) (function)
• (C++17) file_status — represents file type and permissions
  • (C++17) (class)
• status_known — checks whether file status is known
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_block_file — checks whether the given path refers to block device
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_character_file — checks whether the given path refers to a character device
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_directory — checks whether the given path refers to a directory
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_fifo — checks whether the given path refers to a named pipe
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_regular_file — checks whether the argument refers to a regular file
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_socket — checks whether the argument refers to a named IPC socket
  • (C++17) (function)
• is_symlink — checks whether the argument refers to a symbolic link
  • (C++17) (function)
• exists — checks whether path refers to existing file system object
  • (C++17) (function)
• checks whether the directory entry refers to an other file
  • is_other — (public member function of std::filesystem::directory_entry)

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🧚 Category

• Todo — no example

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