Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] drop ##sys#file-info

[Christian Kellermann]

* Alan Post <address@hidden> [111004 14:50]:
> I agree, this patch is now fine.  I wanted to walk myself through a
> mental error I made checking it:
> 
> fifo? returns 0 on ENONENT, whereas file-exists? return #f.  This at
> first concerned me, as it was inconsistent.  It was then I realized
> that throwing an error on an existence test for the non-existence of
> a file clearly doesn't make sense, but asking the question "is this
> path a fifo?" could quite justifiably return "this is not a path."
> 
> Having cleared that confusion up in my head, please do commit this
> patch.

Thank you gentlemen, the patch is finally in :)

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