Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen@gmail.com> writes:
On 2 March 2011 19:48, Zach Beane <xach@xach.com> wrote:
If I have a directory containing a file named a.txt and a symlink b.txt that points to a.txt, is there any ABCL function I can call to get both directory entries as separate objects, i.e. the list (#p"a.txt" #p"b.txt")? The semantics of CL:DIRECTORY seem to require resolving the b.txt symlink, so I'm trying to figure out an extra-standard way to do it in ABCL, if possible.
I suppose we could add a keyword argument to DIRECTORY that would allow that, or add a separate function. I don't think we have such a facility at the moment.
Let me back up and get to my actual goal; perhaps there's a way to do it in ABCL already... I'd like to delete a directory tree from within ABCL. The directory generally consists of plain files and other directories, but in some cases there will be symlinks present. For other CL implementations, I used extra-standard directory deletion and enumeration functions, so I thought I could perhaps do the same in ABCL. But maybe I can go for a higher abstraction. Is there a function within ABCL that deletes an entire directory tree? Zach