------- Comment #2 from jimrees at itasoftware dot com 2006-09-11 21:10 ------- fyi, a "real world" example of how this comes up? Construct a std::ifstream using a pathname to a directory instead of a file. Under Linux and MacOS at least, the basic_filebuf code is happy to open such a pathname, but then will get EISDIR when it first tries to read, and will throw an exception.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29026
