[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] lua: libs: Add a vlc.io and move mkdir there

[Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, at 10:31 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Directory exists is not the same as directory was created. Permissions 
> may not match the request, and directory might not be empty.
> 
> This also does not match any common semantics. Regular mkdir fails if 
> directory exists, while mkdir -p succeeds, but is recursive.
> 
> And I know that this is a preexisting design matter but if the API is 
> changed (renamed), it might as well be fixed.
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Would the proposed patch work for you? I'm a bit reluctant to expose errno to lua scripts...
We might also want to add a boolean parameter to vlc.io.mkdir, that would be helpful, and we wouldn't have to return 2 booleans.

Regards,

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  Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
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