Re: Stdio.exist

Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum wrote:

The semantic I think makes sense is that it returns true for anything that exists in any way. E.g. if you do get_dir then Stdio.exist would return true for all its entries.

From a UNIX/POSIX standpoint, the current behaviour is expected and sane.

The semantics you want might be reasonable, but are unexpected by anyone used to UNIX/POSIX semantics.

The Stdio.exist matches the behaviour of: a. access(2). b. test -e ... c. open(2) works (even for directories, on a local filesystem), it return ENOENT on a danglink symlink.

So I'd vote against changing it, but perhaps provide an flag for it to consider a symlink an actual existing object.