Re: [clisp-list] CLISP sensitive about permissions in the current path

[Lars B. <la...@no...>]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> The point is that the specifications of DIRECTORY (and several other
> operators) require the synthesis of TRUENAMEs, which is to say, absolute
> paths.

I'm not really interested in the current working directory, or the
directory contents, or any truename.  I only want to LOAD and OPEN
files in the current directory.

> Instead, you should use lower level POSIX API.

I don't want to use a lower level API to replace (load "tmp.lisp").

> Perhaps you should just ask your system administrator to
> correct the access rights.

Perhaps, but it's not likely they will comply.

> It could be a problem for other unix programs, not to be able to
> recover the absolute pathname of a directory.

As a user only working with relative paths, I tend to view that as a
bug.