[cmucl-help] ext:unix-namestring issue

[Jared C. Davis]

Sounds great, thanks guys!

Cheers,
Jared

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fixed. This will be available in 20f.
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Carl" == Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>     Carl> For what it is worth, the return value of unix-namestring on
>>     Carl> 18a differs from 20c but it agrees with the expected
>>     Carl> results.  A trace of the various %enumerate-* functions that
>>     Carl> the recursion in %enumerate-directories is behaving
>>     Carl> differently.  The implementation of
>>     Carl> %enumerate-directories changed in version 1e8bacb7 and has
>>     Carl> not changed since.  The
>>     Carl> regression might be there.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint. I see now that in the old version,
>> %enumerate-directories didn't check to see if the directory exists.
>> It would just continue recursing.
>>
>> A quick test shows that it's easy to restore the old behavior.
>> However, I have not yet tested out symlink loops.  In some ways, I
>> don't see why we need this check.  If you have such things on your
>> filesystem, you're in a bad state already.  And we have precedence for
>> not checking for loops since EQUALP will hang forever if you have
>> circular lists/structures.
>>
>> --
>> Ray
>>
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> Ray
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