I've just published draft #7 of SRFI
170. It was submitted by John Cowan,
coauthor/co-editor of the SRFI.
<https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-170/>
Please note that Harold Ancell is now
coauthor/co-editor of this SRFI. Thank
you very much, Harold.
Here are John's comments on the draft:
Please make this a new draft, as there
are a *lot* of changes, notably the
removal of error handling and
subprocess sections to their own
future SRFIs.
There are also many other changes.
Here is the commit summary:
- file-info-special? -> POSIX
file-info-block-/character-special?
- scsh file-info masks mode field to
bottom three bytes
- make arg names of
create-hard-link/-symlink same as
rename-file
- Add chase? to set-file-owner/-group,
note scsh doesn't do it
- addind port as option to
set-file-timespecs, it's trivial
- added port as option to
set-file-timespecs, it's trivial
- added chase? as option to
set-file-timespecs, it's trivial
- added process-object/pid optional arg
to process-group, it's trivial
- Make delta for nice optional, explain
defaults, proc->process-group
- oops, it's process-object, not
process-group
- improved user-login-name through
user-supplementary-gids explanation
- normal order for effective id
procedures, fixed error in set-*
- description improvement for
user-login-name through set-gid
- more details about set-uid and
set-gid, relevant to exec functions
- added
set-user-real-and-effective-uid/-gid,
and much explaination
- added Chibi Scheme implementation,
scsh doesn't do new -and- procs
- Added compiler versions to the Chibi
Scheme implementation sentence
- scsh does not impliment
current-timezone and current-locale
- clarify that signal-process/-group
take process *objects* (or ints)
- process ids < 1 have special meanings,
please consult a reference
- specify what directory-files returns
if not handed a directory, '()
- open-/read-/close-directory is a dumb
wrapper that returns . and ..
- Remove section 3.11 Environment
variables and its exec-path-list
- Clarify set-file-timespecs optional
arguments and modify-time name
- HTML quote abbrev cleanup
- major cleanup and correction of
open/read/close-directory
- read-directory returns #f ->
eof-object to be generator friendly
- correct optional argument
specification for directory-files
- weaken file-info claim,
directory-files will not return '()
- updated set-file-timespecs
- more fixups for coming SRFI on
timespecs
- move real-path so it doesn't get
overlooked
- increase clarity of what deletes what
in override?
- scsh difference improvement, and
remove file-info-symlink?
- remove all symbolic link awareness and
handling except real-path
- set-file-mode permission bits -> mode
bits
- delete set*id foot guns
- of course it does when chasing....
- remove file-info-*? predicates for
types we aren't supporting
- remove port argument from
set-file-mode/-owner/-group/-timespecs
- remove processes proceedures from spec
- clean up Implementation section to
match recent changes
- Per John and Lassi, add myself (hga)
to the list of authors
- removed user-login-name, and section
3.8 System parameters
- remove group-info:members
- clean up Implementation section
- create more space on definition lines
to add POSIX calls
- add POSIX calls to definition lines,
placeholders for with- ttys
- add list of canonical POSIX calls that
can EINTR
- try to make it clear that dynamic-wind
is magical, not our use of it
- Chibi Scheme's user and group database
access procedures fixed
- first cut improving with- and without-
procedure explainations, etc.
- Added ppid and pgid,
user-info:full-name and
user-info:parsed-full-name, editorial
improvements on terminals
- fixed transposition of pid and
parent-pid POSIX calls
- added read-string as valid in raw mode
- with-raw/rare-mode must be handed both
an input and output port
- added stty equivalents for
with-rare-mode and without-echo
- with/without- tty procedures now take
a proc with port args
- improve with/without- return
information, other improvements
- add Windows caveat for top set of
user-info record fields
- don't make user of without-echo guess
as to correct input-port
- editorial changes
- Added back symlink, read-symlink, and
file-info-symlink?; renamed tty? to
terminal?
- Fix broken anchors.
- user-info:parsed-full-name titlecased
-> capitalize if ASCII
- remove errant [override?] argument
from read-symlink
- chase->follow, and return that as a
non-optional flag to file-info
- added user-effective-uid and
user-effective-gid
- POSIX realpath is simple to trivial,
readlink is not
- added make-directory-files-generator,
clean up obsolete gecos note
- fix some cut and paster errors in
make-directory-files-generator
- correct optional argument conventions
for create-directory/-fifo
- add when terminal? will raise an error
vs. return #f
- Chibi implementation of
call-with-temporary-filename unfinished
- initial versions
- lots more details
- small improvements and spell checking
- added 0.8.0 Makefile and lib-tests.scm
- improvements and additions from
testing
- add the example implementation files
- Use DTD for HTML5.
- add mention of Chibi Scheme example
implementation in its directory
- changed error system to return
procedure name, not procedure
- user-info:parsed-full-name titlecased
-> capitalize if ASCII
- remove errant [override?] argument
from read-symlink
- chase->follow, and return that as a
non-optional flag to file-info
- added user-effective-uid and
user-effective-gid
- POSIX realpath is simple to trivial,
readlink is not
- added make-directory-files-generator,
clean up obsolete gecos note
- fix some cut and paster errors in
make-directory-files-generator
- correct optional argument conventions
for create-directory/-fifo
- add when terminal? will raise an error
vs. return #f
- Chibi implementation of
call-with-temporary-filename unfinished
- add mention of Chibi Scheme example
implementation in its directory
- removed 3.1 Errors
- restored headers
- Publish seventh draft.
Here's the diff:
<https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-170/compare/66bef82..e642826>
Regards,
SRFI Editor