SRFI 59: Vicinity

by Aubrey Jaffer

status: final (2005-03-08)

keywords: I/O

library name: vicinities

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Abstract

A vicinity is a descriptor for a place in the file system. Vicinities hide from the programmer the concepts of host, volume, directory, and version. Vicinities express only the concept of a file environment where a file name can be resolved to a file in a system independent manner.

All of these procedures are file-system dependent. Use of these vicinity procedures can make programs file-system independent.