Yeah, I just ran into this myself.

Probably all of the file primitives should be checked. It looks like they assume everything is just going to work (a quite remarkable assumption for software engineers to make).

I think I'll add sclang as a component, since the primitive will have to return the error code.

It looks like they assume everything is just going to work (a quite remarkable assumption for software engineers to make).

Remember that many of the boost.filesystem calls in that code are the throwing versions. The wrapping primitive doesn't need to return an error code in this case.

OK, quick survey:

• File.copy("nonexistent", "nonexistent2"); -- throws error (OK)

• File.delete("nonexistent"); -- returns true (I guess it's reasonable -- the objective is to be sure the file doesn't exist after the operation, and this is also true if the file never existed)

• File.delete("/usr/local/bin/sclang"); -- fails because of insufficient permissions, and returns false -- OK, there's a way to detect failure

• File.fileSize("nonexistent"); -- throws error (OK)

• File.mtime("nonexistent"); -- throws error (OK)

• File.type("nonexistent"); -- throws error (OK)

So (unless I missed any methods), it seems mkdir is the only one that doesn't report failure.

FWIW, yesterday I lost 6 of 25-30 student recordings (about 20% failure rate) because, despite adding File.mkdir(Platform.recordingsDir) into my code, there's no reliable way to detect failure and warn the user.

If someone can point me to the error-throwing version of boost mkdir, I'll be happy to submit a PR.

IMO this shouldn't be "future" -- it should be 3.10. Lost data from a live performance is not acceptable.

@jamshark70 it's easy to find the reference documentation for boost.filesystem with a quick google search. Throwing behavior is clearly defined there

Thanks @joshpar, I'll try to make a PR today.

@brianlheim It was a really busy week last week, like, come home and collapse on the sofa busy. It's awkward, a lot of open issues that I have a stake in, and I'm tired... really tired. I apologize that I didn't do my homework but I can't keep up with everything.

Closed in #3813. Thanks for the PR @jamshark70 !