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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2017-09-06 17:00:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2017-10-11 16:59:40 +0200 |
| commit | bb0b43eae854125688f3143e53c8974cafed4ad2 (patch) | |
| tree | 648c103b0777d951b0e4a44b6615753d2748a2ea /erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | |
| parent | 02fd746c40e829adbe77cc526c7df904698e2534 (diff) | |
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Don't allow null chars in various strings
Various places that now reject null chars inside strings
- Primitive file operations reject it in filenames.
- Primitive environment variable operations reject it in
names and values.
- os:cmd() reject it in its input.
Also '=' characters are rejected by primitive environment
variable operations in environment variable names.
Documentation has been updated to document null characters
in these types of data as invalid. Currently these operations
accept null chars at the end of strings, but that will change
in the future.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src/erlang.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 2465f49581..aa24eeedd5 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -3683,6 +3683,12 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code> </item> <tag><c>{env, <anno>Env</anno>}</c></tag> <item> + <p> + Types:<br/> + <c><anno>Name</anno> = </c><seealso marker="kernel:os#type-env_var_name"><c>os:env_var_name()</c></seealso><br/> + <c><anno>Val</anno> = </c><seealso marker="kernel:os#type-env_var_value"><c>os:env_var_value()</c></seealso><c> | false</c><br/> + <c>Env = [{<anno>Name</anno>, <anno>Val</anno>}]</c> + </p> <p>Only valid for <c>{spawn, <anno>Command</anno>}</c>, and <c>{spawn_executable, <anno>FileName</anno>}</c>. The environment of the started process is extended using @@ -3697,7 +3703,13 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code> exception is <c><anno>Val</anno></c> being the atom <c>false</c> (in analogy with <seealso marker="kernel:os#getenv/1"><c>os:getenv/1</c></seealso>, - which removes the environment variable.</p> + which removes the environment variable. + </p> + <p> + For information about encoding requirements, see documentation + of the types for <c><anno>Name</anno></c> and + <c><anno>Val</anno></c>. + </p> </item> <tag><c>{args, [ string() | binary() ]}</c></tag> <item> |