[Openmcl-devel] delete-file and directories

[Cyrus Harmon]

Is this a joke and I'm missing the punchline? So 
(ensure-directories-do-not-exists #p"/usr/local/foodir" will remove 
/usr/local/foodir, /usr/local and /usr in turn? Something like 
delete-directory would seem to make more sense.

Cyrus

On Mar 12, 2005, at 2:40 PM, bryan o'connor wrote:

>> "ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-DO-NOT-EXIST"
>
> that is a great name.
>
> sbcl has the sb-posix package that provides wrappers around
> most (all?) of the posix calls.  one of which is rmdir.
>
> i think something equivalent could easily be written for
> openmcl.. perhaps even using the same sb-posix api.
>
> it'd would help in porting some lisp apps like macho.
>
> 	...bryan
>
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