>     Lassi and I have I think agreed on that, with Lassi suggesting and
>     my agreeing that file-info should default to chase?/follow? being false.
>
> I believe it should not default, but be a required argument.  When you
> ask for file info, you should have to think about what you actually
> want.  That's the C-level status quo: there is no default as between
> stat() and lstat() ,you have to pick one.

That's even better.

In C, fstat() for file descriptors is its own function as well. Should
we simply mirror that in Scheme? Currently the chase argument is
meaningless for ports.