From: mad AT intersurf DOT com (Mike Demoulin)
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Subject: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
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In g++, I have used stat (), __file_exists (), and ifstream ().good ().
All of these can return false negatives under NT. What am I doing wrong?