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N3803: File System Technical Specification (PDTS) -- Beman Dawes

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A new WG21 paper is available. A copy is linked below, and the paper will also appear in the next normal WG21 mailing. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

 

Document number: N3803

Date: 2013-10-05

File System Technical Specification (PDTS)

by Beman Dawes

Excerpt:

This Technical Specification specifies requirements for implementations of an interface that computer programs written in the C++ programming language may use to perform operations on file systems and their components, such as paths, regular files, and directories. This Technical Specification is applicable to information technology systems that can access hierarchical file systems, such as those with operating systems that conform to the POSIX ([fs.norm.ref]) interface. This Technical Specification is applicable only to vendors who wish to provide the interface it describes.

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Mantosh Kumar said on Apr 3, 2014 07:57 PM:

Well most of the useful interfaces is provided in library extension "filesystem" proposed(N3803) except one important (i.e. group and user id of owner of file).

I am sure that this must have been thought by community in the original design. I wanted to know what else could be design constraints which might have restricted it to be implemented?

Mantosh Kumar