Re: [Chicken-users] [patch] remove the initial check on directory existance

[Jim Ursetto]

Well, there is another option, which is to put an atomic
implementation in, say, the posix-extras egg, and then the
user may import it under a different name or overwrite
posix's create-directory with it.

On Feb 3, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Peter Bex wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 10:22:45AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>> Peter Bex scripsit:
>> 
>>> Better to either keep it the way it is, change the semantics and
>>> breaking compat (so be it), or convert to keyword args and make it an
>>> optional feature (my least favorite alternative).
>> 
>> I'm not a big fan of keyword args either, but an optional second argument
>> that makes it atomic wouldn't kill anybody.
>> 
>> (create-directory pathname [ atomic? ] )
> 
> It already takes an optional second arg.  The current signature is:
> 
> (create-directory pathname [ parents? ] )
> 
> This optional parameter tells it to create parent directories if they
> don't exist.  Of course we could make it look like:
> 
> (create-directory pathname [ parents? [ atomic? ] ] )
> 
> This is probably the cleanest backwards-compatible solution.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
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