Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] handle EOVERFLOW and ENOTDIR gracefully in file/directory-exists?

[Christian Kellermann]

* Alan Post <address@hidden> [111008 21:37]:
> 
> Here is my new proposal:
> 
> Do not check for ENAMETOOLONG (I withdraw that proposal) and wait
> for a user to encounter a problem in real life for which adding
> an ENAMETOOLONG check would help.  If thata never happens, it's clearly
> not a problem.
> 
> As such, I think the patch as written is fine.

Maybe this is a misunderstanding: Are you aware that an error is
raised in case of an ENAMETOOLONG in the patch as it is?

Kind regards,

Christian

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