Re: ASDF-INSTALL for [ MCL ]

james anderson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> the problem is that there are at least a few places where the
> implementation presumes that (namestring (truename <some pathname>))
> will produce a string which conforms to posix syntax.

I've run into this with SBCL. Any native filename that contains
wildcard characters (like #\[, #\?, and #\*) will have a namestring
that doesn't correspond to any file on disk:

   (namestring (truename #p"foo\\?")) => "/home/xach/tmp/foo\\?"

Christophe came up with a workaround for the sb-posix module; perhaps
it's portable enough to use elsewhere.

Zach






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