Thanks Charles! This is exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Giacomo 2016-11-30 22:53 GMT+01:00 Charles Forsyth : > > On 30 November 2016 at 21:51, Charles Forsyth > wrote: > >> that the whole path name is re-evaluated 3 times > > > That doesn't happen with the current implementation, because it walks to > the parent directory, does the create/open etc at that point with a > reference held. >