Type: SB-POSIX:FILENAME

A STRING designating a filename in native namestring syntax.

Note that native namestring syntax is distinct from Lisp namestring syntax:

(pathname “/foo*/bar”)

is a wild pathname with a pattern-matching directory component. SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING may be used to construct Lisp pathnames that denote POSIX filenames as understood by system calls, and SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING can be used to coerce them into strings in the native namestring syntax.

Note also that POSIX filename syntax does not distinguish the names of files from the names of directories: in order to parse the name of a directory in POSIX filename syntax into a pathname MY-DEFAULTS for which

(merge-pathnames (make-pathname :name “FOO” :case :common) my-defaults)

returns a pathname that denotes a file in the directory, supply a true :AS-DIRECTORY argument to SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING. Likewise, to supply the name of a directory to a POSIX function in non-directory syntax, supply a true :AS-FILE argument to SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING.