Re: [Chicken-users] I need some new eggs: posix-extensions and lzma

[Kon Lovett]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 5:40 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:

> On 17 Jan 2009, at 10:57 pm, Kon Lovett wrote:
> > Yes. The misc-extn egg needs to be "exploded". If you want I can
> > create a "posix-extensions" (posix-extras, posix-extn, ?) with the
> > current misc-extn-posix code & your S_IFMT additions.

In the chicken svn repo release/3 is a new entry - posix-extensions. I  
have not released it yet since it needs to be tested. Give me a little  
while to make a test case. However it does compile & load on MacOS  
10.5 (no point in trying Windows since almost the entire file is  
conditioned on "unix").

Also, while a "posix-extensions.wiki" file exists in the repo it needs  
work & is unsuitable for inclusion in the wiki section.

> That'd suit me fine. Here's what I've got. I based it on existing
> stuff in the posix egg through blatant copying - I'm wondering about
> recasting it in term of good clean foreign-lambdas rather than all
> this ##core#inline stuff:

I didn't change the "##core#inline" style, yet. The literal inline of  
C source can be faster but   seems a bit much for a system call.

Feel free to modify.

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I will create a release/4 version later.

Best Wishes,
Kon