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authorAnthony Ramine <[email protected]>2014-06-28 08:44:44 +0200
committerAnthony Ramine <[email protected]>2014-06-28 12:20:09 +0200
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Introduce new option 'raw' in file_info functions
This option allows the caller not to go through the file server for information about files guaranteed to be local.
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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index 8dae34431b..135e993e54 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -1291,6 +1291,8 @@
or before unix time epoch which is 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
Default is <c>{time, local}</c>.
</p>
+ <p>If the <c>raw</c> option is set, the file server will not be called
+ and only informations about local files will be returned.</p>
<note>
<p>
Since file times is stored in posix time on most OS it is
@@ -1517,6 +1519,8 @@
the link will be returned in the <c>file_info</c> record and
the <c>type</c> field of the record will be set to
<c>symlink</c>.</p>
+ <p>If the <c>raw</c> option is set, the file server will not be called
+ and only informations about local files will be returned.</p>
<p>If <c><anno>Name</anno></c> is not a symbolic link, this function returns
exactly the same result as <c>read_file_info/1</c>.
On platforms that do not support symbolic links, this function
@@ -1855,6 +1859,8 @@
interpret it as universal time and <c>posix</c> must be seconds since
or before unix time epoch which is 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
Default is <c>{time, local}</c>.
+ <p>If the <c>raw</c> option is set, the file server will not be called
+ and only informations about local files will be returned.</p>
</p>
<p>The following fields are used from the record, if they are
given.</p>