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-rw-r--r-- | ice-9/boot-9.scm | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ice-9/boot-9.scm b/ice-9/boot-9.scm index e3620e038..5ec9b3234 100644 --- a/ice-9/boot-9.scm +++ b/ice-9/boot-9.scm @@ -407,10 +407,12 @@ (if (provided? 'socket) (primitive-load-path "ice-9/networking.scm")) +;; ENHANCE-ME: Catching an exception from stat is a bit wasteful, do this in +;; C where all that's needed is to inspect the return from stat(). (define file-exists? (if (provided? 'posix) (lambda (str) - (access? str F_OK)) + (->bool (false-if-exception (stat str)))) (lambda (str) (let ((port (catch 'system-error (lambda () (open-file str OPEN_READ)) (lambda args #f)))) |