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

[John Cowan]

Christian Kellermann scripsit:

> I personally prefer to get yelled at when I provide nonsense input
> to a function but that may be irrellevant if everyone else would
> expect to get different things.

It's not really nonsense.  For example, if your current directory is on
a FAT (not VFAT) file system, and you ask if "chicken-tmp" exists, you
will get an ENAMETOOLONG.

> John, how do other schemes handle this situation?

I'm away from my Linux box, where they are all installed,
and I can't ssh into it thanks to my ISP.

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