| 2008-12-20 23:43:40 |
Nikodemus Siivola |
description |
Slime's inspector tries to use PATHNAME on any kind of FILE-STREAM
object which a socket is, too. However, PATHNAME signals an (obscure)
error when being tried on a socket.
People expressed discomfort that sockets are not really file-streams. |
The way SBCL's streams are set up, all FD-STREAMS are FILE-STREAMS. This is
deeply wrong, and makes things harder everyone who want to reason about pathnames
associated with streams (FILE-STREAMS are valid pathname designators.)
For example, Slime's inspector tries to use PATHNAME on any kind of FILE-STREAM
object which a socket is, too. However, PATHNAME signals an (obscure)
error when being tried on a socket. People expressed discomfort that sockets are not
really file-streams.
(As a stopgap measure we might return pathnames based on the FD: /dev/fd/n -- but
that sucks too.)
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| 2008-12-20 23:44:23 |
Nikodemus Siivola |
description |
The way SBCL's streams are set up, all FD-STREAMS are FILE-STREAMS. This is
deeply wrong, and makes things harder everyone who want to reason about pathnames
associated with streams (FILE-STREAMS are valid pathname designators.)
For example, Slime's inspector tries to use PATHNAME on any kind of FILE-STREAM
object which a socket is, too. However, PATHNAME signals an (obscure)
error when being tried on a socket. People expressed discomfort that sockets are not
really file-streams.
(As a stopgap measure we might return pathnames based on the FD: /dev/fd/n -- but
that sucks too.)
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The way SBCL's streams are set up, all FD-STREAMS are FILE-STREAMS. This is
deeply wrong, and makes things harder for everyone who want to reason about pathnames
associated with streams (FILE-STREAMS are valid pathname designators.)
For example, Slime's inspector tries to use PATHNAME on any kind of FILE-STREAM
object which a socket is, too. However, PATHNAME signals an (obscure)
error when being tried on a socket. People expressed discomfort that sockets are not
really file-streams.
(As a stopgap measure we might return pathnames based on the FD: /dev/fd/n -- but
that sucks too.)
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