std::filesystem::directory_entry::assign - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

Assigns new content to the directory entry object. Sets the path to p and calls refresh to update the cached attributes. If an error occurs, the values of the cached attributes are unspecified.

This function does not commit any changes to the filesystem.

[edit] Parameters

p - path to the filesystem object to which the directory entry will refer
ec - out-parameter for error reporting in the non-throwing overload

[edit] Return value

(none)

[edit] Exceptions

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

  1. Throws std::filesystem::filesystem_error on underlying OS API errors, constructed with p as the first path argument and the OS error code as the error code argument.

  2. 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.

[edit] Example

Possible output:

The entry "/tmp" is a directory entry.assign(); The entry "/tmp/cppreference.html" is a regular file remove(entry); The entry "/tmp/cppreference.html" is a regular file entry.assign(); The entry "/tmp/cppreference.html" does not exists on the file system

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