Re: DIRECTORY and symlinks

> Does the standard specify what the truename of a dead symlink is?
>
No, but the assumption is that implementations will take steps to
compute this truename, which might result in errors, and it is not
portable to assume otherwise.

> Well, asdf-utils:directory* is full of #+.  That's the kind of code I
> like to avoid.
>
The whole point is that it has the #+ for each and every of the 9
active implementations plus 6 more, so you don't have to. (And yes
there might be bugs or missing #+'es, but at least they only have to
be fixed in one place.) Alternatively, there's IOLib.

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