Re: [Scheme-reports] 6.14 System interface John Cowan 06 Jan 2013 05:34 UTC

Andy Wingo scripsit:

> `file-exists?' is a bad interface, introducing TOCTTOU bugs.

That's true, but there is no other way to recover even most of the time
from fatal errors resulting from opening an existing file for output.

> `emergency-exit' could refer to _Exit from C99 instead of _exit from
> particular platforms.

Particular standards.

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