Re: uiop parse-native-namestring portability?

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"Jared" == Jared C Davis jared.c.davis@gmail.com writes:

Jared> Hi, Jared> Hrmn, this also seems to provoke an error in CMUCL:

Jared> * (uiop:ensure-directory-pathname (uiop:parse-native-namestring "."))

Jared> Error in function LISP::UNPARSE-UNIX-FILE: Jared> Invalid value for a pathname name: "." Jared> [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

Presumably this happens because on unix, there is no file with name "."; it's a directory.

I think this still points to some issue in uiop:parse-native-namestring for cmucl. Your example shows that Allegro parses it the same way (cl:parse-namestring ".") does on cmucl.

-- Ray