[Openmcl-devel] close on abort

[David Tolpin]

On 05.09.2005, at 13:57, Gary Byers wrote:

> Aside from getting the pathname wrong, some of this code seems
> to call CL:RENAME-FILE with an :IF-EXISTS keyword argument.
>
> CL:RENAME-FILE isn't really supposed to take any keyword arguments.
> But ...
> If the lower-level function that actually does the renaming complains
> that the output file already exists, it'd make sense if
>
> (rename-file file new-name :if-exists :overwrite)
>
> found some way to overwrite the existing file.

Judging by the code, it does -- it checks (via a call to if-exists)  
whether it is allowed to overwrite, it is just the wrong name of the  
target file coming into play only if the computation is aborted that  
is the problem.

David