Re: [Sbcl-devel] PROBE-FILE problem

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 2/19/08, Nikodemus Siivola <nik...@ra...> wrote:

> FWIW, I think ELOOP is clear FILE-ERROR: it might be that the bit that
> loops is symlink whose pathname were are probing -- so we cannot tell,
> just like with EACCESS.

Brainfart there, sorry, Obviously we _could_ tell, and might there even return
the name of the symlink (like we do with broken symlinks) -- but I'm
not at all sure what the reasonable thing there is. FILE-ERROR seems
like a conservative response, though I can imagine users who would
want the name of the link itself,

> ...but I'm not claiming anything re other errno situations -- just
> thinking about ENOTDIR right now.

This still stands. :)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus