Re: doco ports verbiage

[Kevin Ryde]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> What does Guile do when FILENAME already exists?  We should document
> that.

I guess on a unix-like system it truncates the file and leaves you
ready to put new contents.

> We can defer to "what the OS usually does when opening an
> existing file for writing." or more specifically "equivalent to
> fopen(FILENAME, "w")".

I could imagine fopen "w" on any system truncating, for general C/Unix
compatibility, though I don't know for sure.

Do you want to say fopen "w", or just a general "OS convention"?

> I think we need to add that the respective current port is restored.

Yep, beaut.