[SAGA-RG] Semantics of the ns_entry constructor

['Andre Merzky']

Quoting [Hartmut Kaiser] (Aug 17 2009):
> 
> What should be the outcome of the following:
> 
> saga::url u ("file://localhost/etc/");
> saga::file::entry e(u);
> if (e.get_type() == saga::object::File)
>    cout << "e is an entry";
> else if (e.get_type() == saga::object::Directory))
>    cout << "e is a directory";
> 
> ? IOW, what's the type of the created object? I think in our implementation
> it will report to be a directory, actually.

But, the object type *is* entry, and actually that is also
what our implementation reports:

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   Jonas merzky ~/test : cat entry.cpp
   #include <saga/saga.hpp>
   
   int main ()
   {
     saga::url u ("file://localhost/etc/");
     saga::name_space::entry e (u);
   
     if ( e.get_type () == saga::object::File )
     {
       std::cout << "e is an entry" << std::endl;
     }
     else if ( e.get_type () == saga::object::Directory )
     {
       std::cout << "e is a directory" << std::endl;
     }
   
     return 0;
   }
   
   Jonas merzky ~/test : make entry
   make: `entry' is up to date.

   Jonas merzky ~/test : ./entry
   e is an entry

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Otherwise the entry c'tor would indeed create an c++ dir
object - how could that work?

Andre.

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