[Chicken-janitors] Re: #211: add a `file-type' procedure to posix unit

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#211: add a `file-type' procedure to posix unit
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  Reporter:  felix           |       Owner:          
      Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  critical        |   Milestone:          
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:          
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  posix   
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Changes (by zbigniew):

  * priority:  not urgent at all => critical
  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 Unfortunately this change broke the assumption that regular-file?, etc.
 will return #f if the file does not exist at all.  Now, it throws an
 error.  I think quite a bit of code relies on the old behavior--my own
 does and so does the core itself.  For example, posix#create-directory no
 longer works at all in recursive mode, because it uses directory? to check
 for directory existence, and non-existent directories will barf.

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