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authorAndre Nathan <[email protected]>2019-04-18 17:45:04 -0300
committerAndre Nathan <[email protected]>2019-05-14 11:16:58 -0300
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file: allow open/2 to work on directories
This is useful mainly to ensure that a new file has been persisted to disk by calling file:sync/1 or file:datasync/1 on file's parent directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/src/file.erl')
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/file.erl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
index 1d4e37196c..a0616da670 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ raw_write_file_info(Name, #file_info{} = Info) ->
-spec open(File, Modes) -> {ok, IoDevice} | {error, Reason} when
File :: Filename | iodata(),
Filename :: name_all(),
- Modes :: [mode() | ram],
+ Modes :: [mode() | ram | directory],
IoDevice :: io_device(),
Reason :: posix() | badarg | system_limit.
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ path_script(Path, File, Bs) ->
{ok, IoDevice, FullName} | {error, Reason} when
Path :: [Dir :: name_all()],
Filename :: name_all(),
- Modes :: [mode()],
+ Modes :: [mode() | directory],
IoDevice :: io_device(),
FullName :: filename_all(),
Reason :: posix() | badarg | system_limit.