[Sbcl-devel] Re: sb-posix does not export constants

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

Rudi Schlatte <ru...@co...> writes:

> Daniel Barlow <da...@te...> writes:
>
>> Rudi Schlatte <ru...@co...> writes:
>>
>>> * Export syscall-error, so conditions of this type can be handled
>>>   outside of the sb-posix package
>>
>> Well spotted.
>
> Another one, not so easily solved this time: the calls from
> sb-posix;interface.lisp are exported, but the constants from
> sb-posix;constants.lisp are not.  Could perhaps sb-grovel be convinced
> to issue export statements?

Almost certainly.

Isn't there another issue involved with specifically SB-POSIX?
Remember, we're encouraging people _not_ to :USE the package, so in
that sense exporting SYSCALL-ERROR isn't the whole story, I think.
Something in me wants a package called SB-POSIX-INTERFACE or somesuch,
which can be USEd, into which SYSCALL-ERROR would go and be exported
from; SB-POSIX would be strictly for constants and functions
associated with manual pages.  Does that make sense?

Christophe
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