[elephant-devel] open-controller for bdb doesn't accept a pathname spec

[Robert L. Read]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:36 +0200, Ryszard Szopa wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Ian Eslick <eslick at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> > I had just run into this myself too!  Anyway, I made some tweaks to the
> > patch and just pushed the fix.
> >
> >  You could write a whitebox test for the auxiliary function I created called
> > elephant-db-path which returns a pathname to probe-file regardless of the
> > input spec.
> 
> Here it is. There's one problem though: for POSIX-like systems,
> multiple subsequent slashes don't change the meaning of a pathname.
> This is not the case for CL pathnames. Should we care about it?
> 
> BTW there are some aspects of the tests system I fail to understand.
> For example, elephant-tests fails to compile
> (tests/testconcurrency.lisp wants to use package BT, which cannot be
> found).

I applied this extra test to the elephant-unstable branch.

> 
>     -- Richard
> 
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