By being standardized, it is opening itself up to being the defacto file-system API of-choice for C++ programmers. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the API wasn

By being standardized, it is opening itself up to being the defacto file-system API of-choice for C++ programmers. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the API wasn't broken by design. It is opening itself up to 'time of check to time of use' bugs because it is completely oriented around paths. I can't believe that this was approved. I was a professional file-system hacker until quite recently and this API seems like exactly the wrong thing.