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[feisty_meow.git] / nucleus / library / filesystem / filename.h

diff --git a/nucleus/library/filesystem/filename.h b/nucleus/library/filesystem/filename.h
index a6018ef53313ab4488e3449dcb9a491454db1d36..8e257358def959d93da0fcb8c4e2e2e8ff271448 100644 (file)
--- a/nucleus/library/filesystem/filename.h
+++ b/nucleus/library/filesystem/filename.h
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
 // forward declarations.
 class status_info;
 
-//hmmm: this doesn't really belong here, does it.
-
+//hmmm: this doesn't really belong here, does it...
 // define useful constant for filesystem path length.
 #ifndef MAX_ABS_PATH 
   #ifdef __WIN32__
@@ -142,6 +141,10 @@ public:
   bool is_readable() const;
   bool is_executable() const;
 
+  // is_normal makes sure that the file or directory is not a named pipe or other
+  // special type of file.  symbolic links are considered normal.
+  bool is_normal() const;
+
   enum write_modes {
     ALLOW_NEITHER = 0x0,
     ALLOW_READ = 0x1, ALLOW_WRITE = 0x2,