On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:11:47PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Christian Kellermann scripsit: > > > Wouldn't the right answer be in this case "We don't know whether this > > file exists, because some Bad Thing(tm) happened while trying to find > > out" instead of yes or no? > > No. If ENAMETOOLONG is returned, the file can't possibly exist (because > the filesystem has no way to represent it), so it's always correct to > return #f in that case. >
(I'm sorry this got divided into three messages! I'm typing faster than I'm thinking...) The closest errno value to "Bag Thing(tm)" is EFAULT, meaning you gave a pointer to the kernel it couldn't do anything with. IIRC Solaris just terminates your process, but OpenBSD (and very likely others) scold you with EFAULT. -Alan -- .i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
