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

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Cowan <address@hidden> [111008 22:30]:
> Here's my argument:  file-exists? should return #t if the file definitely
> exists and #f if it definitely doesn't, and should throw an exception
> if the implementation cannot tell.  In the case of ENAMETOOLONG, the
> file *cannot* exist, so returning #f (and not throwing an exception)
> is the Right Thing.

I see, thank you. This does sound reasonable for me. Felix, I bet
you have fallen asleep by now :) What do you think?

As to my dismay I have pushed the patch in the meantime but I would
add the one line for the ENAMETOOLONG case as proposed by these
gentlemen.

Cheers,

Christian

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