Steel Bank Common Lisp

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Stephen Westfold <westfold@...> wrote:
> Last March Rudi Schlatte helped me fix a bug in win32-sockets.lisp.
> The problem was that after loading sb-bsd-sockets and then saving an
> executable or core, WSAStartup was not being called on startup. I
> fixed it by replacing
>
> (defvar *wsa-startup-call*
>  (wsa-startup (make-wsa-version 2 2)))
>
> by
>
> (defun wsa-init ()
>  (wsa-startup (make-wsa-version 2 2)))
>
> (push 'swa-init sb-ext:*init-hooks*)
>
> (defvar *wsa-startup-call*
>  (wsa-init))
>
>
> I did report this fix at the time, but the currently distributed sbcl
> still contains the bug, so I need to reapply the fix each time I
> install the new version. This is becoming more of a problem as more of
> my colleagues are using the windows version of our software.
>
> Could someone with more knowledge than me verify and install this
> patch or one they consider better?

Thanks for the reminder! Should be taken care of in 1.0.24.46.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

rename-file on windows gives an error if you try to rename a file to  
another name if the name is that of an existing file. This is not the  
case on Linux or Mac OS X, where this is allowed. Looking at the  
Common Lisp spec it is not clear whether this is a bug, but it is a  
real pain. Can this be fixed?

Thanks,
Stephen Westfold

PS Please don't get rid of sb-int:define-hash-table-test without  
providing an equivalent capability.