Hi Nala!

Thanks for testing!

Nala Ginrut <[email protected]> skribis:

> 1. I think file-system-fold based scandir tried to traverse the whole
> directories include sub-directories. It's rather slow for a deep one if I
> just
>     want a files list under 0 level directory tree;

The code had initially approximately 1 typo per line, and I think I’ve
fixed most of them now.  ;-)

So ‘scandir’ does not enter sub-directories.  If it does, that’s another
bug.  :-)

> 2. New scandir will crash while encounters a Chinese file name. This will
> be eliminated by using (setlocale LC_ALL "zh_CN.UTF-8").
>     I think it's the same problem we faced in another thread. There's
> something locale problem in Guile. Of course, we have a temporary solution
> in recent commit;

Yes, Guile views file names as strings and decodes them from the current
locale encoding.  So if there are file names encoded differently, then
scm_from_locale_string, called by ‘readdir’, throws a decoding-error.

That’s unfortunate, I’m not sure what to do.  I think GLib/GIO issues a
warning in such cases, while still being able to handle the file.  We
could imagine ‘readdir’ returning a raw bytevector when decoding fails,
and ‘open-file’ & co. could accept it as input.  But that’s really ugly.

I think Mark had some ideas about it, which would be worth checking.

> 3. It returns weird result. E.g (scandir "mmr")
> ==>  ("." "." "." ".." ".." ".." "aa.c" "exclude" "ml" "myecl")

One of the typos that got fixed, hopefully.  :-)

Can you check again?

> Anyway, I think new scandir's cool. Though it's little slow than my C wrap
> version

Because it uses ‘file-system-fold’, it does one ‘stat’ call for each
file, which the C version doesn’t do.  That should be the only
efficiency difference.

Maybe we could change our ‘scandir’ to return a list of file name/stat
pairs since we have the info anyway?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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