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.
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