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RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> ---
There are 2 ways to solve this:

1. Either check that the file or directory exists inside the isDir/isFile functions and return false if the path does not exist or the input string doesn't designate a directory/file. This is troublesome since you have one value for 2 different semantics.

2. Create a function existsAndIsDir/File where you can call stat a single time. This means adding 2 new functions that add no extra functionality for the benefit of a micro-optimization.

In my opinion we should close this as WONTFIX.

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ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> ---
I believe the right solution add a function akin to C++17's file_status (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/fs/file_status) which would return a struct essentially being union of

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364946(v=vs.85).aspx
on Windows

and

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/stat.html on Posix.

That way users would be to obtain more information in a single call.

Unfortunately we have all kinds of functions defined in https://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_file General, Attributes, Timestamp

while a single function returning a struct would be much more useful.

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--- Comment #3 from ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> ---
> while a single function returning a struct would be much more useful...

... and more type-safe.

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--- Comment #4 from ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> ---
> I believe the right solution add a function akin to C++17's file_status (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/fs/file_status)

Here I meant this function: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/fs/status

as file_status is a struct.

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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