[hunchentoot-devel] create-folder-dispatcher-and-handler and pathname-name & pathname-type

[Frode V. Fjeld]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Frode V. Fjeld <frode at netfonds.no> wrote:

>> ..whereas they both return :UNSPECIFIC for the actual base-path, as you
>> can gather from the stack below. Could it be that weblocks somehow
>> creates the pathname object the wrong way?

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:

> That would be my guess.  I'm not familiar with weblocks, though.

It appears that the root cause is this effect:

TBNL> (values (pathname-type #p"/tmp")
	      (pathname-type (probe-file #p"/tmp")))
NIL
:UNSPECIFIC

(Btw. sbcl will return NIL for both.)

It's unclear to me what the semantics of NIL vs. :UNSPECIFIC is supposed
to be, and so whether it's weblocks or hunchentoot (or both?) that needs
to be tweaked.

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Frode V. Fjeld