Hi guilers, I would like to see fchownat, openat, fchmodat and any *at variants I forgot to appear in future versions of Guile in some form. I have two proposals, which I will illustrate with the procedure 'chmod':
* chmod can currently modify permissions of a file. This OBJECT argument identifying the file can currently be a filename or a port. Allow a ‘file in a directory’ object as well. This could be created with a procedure (make-path-at DIRECTORY-PORT FILENAME) This procedure does not perform any I/O, but rather constructs what is effectively is a pair (DIRECTORY-PORT . FILENAME) but with its own type. * Follow the C API, but with Scheme types. (chmodat DIRECTORY-PORT FILENAME MODE FLAGS) where FLAGS can include AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW (from chmod(2) Linux man page) Any thoughts? Greetings, Maxime P.S. I'm not subscribed to bug-guile@gnu.org, please CC me.
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