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Sure it's OS-specific, but if C can do it, why can't C++? C would set errno to ENOENT as distinct from EACCESS or other errors.

jwd
– jwd

2023-10-27 17:32:47 +00:00
Commented Oct 27, 2023 at 17:32
My answer was in relation to the standard C++ library. If you're calling OS-specific libraries that's not really C++ providing the feature. You're just calling OS-specific libraries from C++.

Cogwheel
– Cogwheel

2023-12-16 04:43:43 +00:00
Commented Dec 16, 2023 at 4:43
I was trying to say that there's room in a language for OS-agnostic ways of doing this (such as fopen from the C standard library). C++ may not currently expose such a thing, but there's no reason it couldn't or shouldn't. I was mostly responding to a vague sense of "this is the way it has to be" that I got from your answer's phrasing.

jwd
– jwd

2023-12-19 21:44:02 +00:00
Commented Dec 19, 2023 at 21:44

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