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Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (11 Dec 2019 12:43 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 12:59 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:21 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:27 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (18 Dec 2019 20:52 UTC)

Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela 12 Dec 2019 13:27 UTC

> The SRFI should probably make clear about PATH_MAX restriction if we
> choose to support this. Maybe if "unlimited-path" feature is supported
> by a Scheme implementation, then the user does not have to care about
> PATH_MAX. Otherwise it's up to the user to handle ENAMETOOLONG

I'd vote for the SRFI to say that implementations are allowed to use
this trick internally, but are not required to.