[Sbcl-devel] :direction :probe

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

Hi,

Is FILE-LENGTH meant to work on streams opened with :direction :probe?

(with-open-file (f "output/sbcl.core" :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)
                                      :direction :probe)
  (file-length f))

I wanted the above to give me the size of sbcl.core, but instead I get
an error, saying that the file-stream is closed.  Is this intentional?

Cheers,

Christophe
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