ENDCASE
; immediate
+\ We basically try to open the file in read-only mode. That seems to
+\ be the best that we can do with ANSI C. If we ever want to do
+\ something more sophisticated, like calling access(2), we must create
+\ a proper primitive. (OTOH, portable programs can't assume much
+\ about FILE-STATUS and non-portable programs could create a custom
+\ function for access(2).)
+: FILE-STATUS ( c-addr u -- 0 ior )
+ r/o bin open-file ( fileid ior1 )
+ ?dup
+ IF nip 0 swap ( 0 ior1 )
+ ELSE close-file 0 swap ( 0 ior2 )
+ THEN
+;
+
privatize