From: Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Paths as sequences of path components
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DCD13B-17F1-454C-B57D-0C63A4EEA15E@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762p1kwdg.fsf_-_@netris.org>
On 23 May 2011, at 22:14, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I really like the basic gist behind Noah's proposal, to allow programs
> to optionally represent paths (roughly) as sequences of path components.
> I haven't worked out all the details, and I'm glad to leave that job to
> someone else, but I do have a few comments to add:
...
> Should our existing POSIX interfaces which accept pathnames be extended
> to optionally accept these higher-level path objects?
it might be a part of POSIX in the future. I mentioned a similar thing on the standardization list, where it was discussed, and I thin somebody is working on it.
Hans
https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=show_archive.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=13889
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 15:34 mingw runtime patches Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-02-15 15:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] [mingw]: Add implementation of canonicalize_file_name Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-04-29 16:33 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 13:56 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-20 14:54 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-04-29 17:16 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-29 17:30 ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-01 11:30 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-01 19:23 ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-01 21:12 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-01 21:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-02 7:45 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-02 21:58 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 22:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-03 7:44 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-03 8:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-04 3:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-04 4:13 ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-04 9:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-17 16:59 ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-17 19:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-17 20:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-23 19:42 ` Filenames and other POSIX byte strings as SCM strings without loss Mark H Weaver
2011-07-01 10:51 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-23 20:14 ` Paths as sequences of path components Mark H Weaver
2011-05-24 10:51 ` Hans Aberg [this message]
2011-11-23 22:15 ` Andy Wingo
2011-11-25 2:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-06-16 22:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 23:16 ` Eli Barzilay
2011-05-20 13:47 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-20 14:01 ` Andy Wingo
2011-06-30 14:11 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] [mingw]: Do not export opendir, readdir etc., as dirents differ Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:37 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 13:57 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 22:22 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] [mingw]: Delete existing target file before attempting rename Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:40 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 14:05 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 21:45 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] [mingw]: Use $LOCALAPPDATA as a possible root for cachedir Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:42 ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 14:03 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 22:02 ` Andy Wingo
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