From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: file-exists? confused Date: 26 Mar 2006 00:48:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87slp6qgyn.fsf@minimini.mvo.home> References: <20060313165454.M814@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> <877j6y6o3d.fsf@zip.com.au> <87acbsslke.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143326894 3204 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2006 22:48:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bill Schottstaedt Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 25 23:48:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHYI-0006bZ-OU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:48:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHYI-0002UV-BQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHYB-0002UQ-D2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHYA-0002UE-GO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHYA-0002UB-CB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.243.153.37] (helo=smtp1.pp.htv.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNHZJ-0008TY-1K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from zagadka.ping.de (cs181072157.pp.htv.fi [82.181.72.157]) by smtp1.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA987FCBF for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:48:01 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: (qmail 15324 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Mar 2006 00:48:01 +0200 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87acbsslke.fsf@zip.com.au> Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5802 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde writes: > Actually, I see off_t is exposed through the ptob port descriptor > funcs, so implicitly changing to off64_t would break applications. I think we need to redo the public port API anyway, for Unicode and to clean it up. At that time, we can also get large files right. > It'd be nice if guile could use the 64 functions internally. There > might need to be new entries in the ptob for seek64 and truncate64 > versions of the seek and truncate funcs. Or a flag saying which > flavour is in use. > > There doesn't seem to be any room in that struct, but if it's always > created by scm_make_port_type then perhaps adding new fields to the > end would keep compatibility. Yes, that is good enough. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel