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Re: doco ports verbiage
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: doco ports verbiage |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:02:51 +1000 |
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> What does Guile do when FILENAME already exists? We should document
> that.
I guess on a unix-like system it truncates the file and leaves you
ready to put new contents.
> We can defer to "what the OS usually does when opening an
> existing file for writing." or more specifically "equivalent to
> fopen(FILENAME, "w")".
I could imagine fopen "w" on any system truncating, for general C/Unix
compatibility, though I don't know for sure.
Do you want to say fopen "w", or just a general "OS convention"?
> I think we need to add that the respective current port is restored.
Yep, beaut.