On Feb 4, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Andrew Catton wrote:

> In looking at this I also noticed that the behavior of directory 
> existence checking can be done in (at least) 2 ways, and that they 
> aren't entirely consistent (both before and after this fix):
>
Sadly this isn't news to many of us. I've been complaining (and trying 
to offer fixes when possible) for years.

We need to clean this up, comprehensively and thoroughly. Flow might be 
a useful part of the process.

tim