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| author | Henrik Nord <[email protected]> | 2014-03-19 10:11:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Henrik Nord <[email protected]> | 2014-03-19 10:11:34 +0100 |
| commit | d9323a2131ae1a61faa02070390dde8de5623eaf (patch) | |
| tree | 2edd7a536c335e49fbf0e9262908fa5eee5b8130 /lib/kernel | |
| parent | 14d1232bf4fba473772764fa7be0c385af642993 (diff) | |
| parent | b45af5f9608d5dc79a5f201afdcc9a7e28e7ba83 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'josevalim/set_cwd-typespec'
* josevalim/set_cwd-typespec:
Correct file:set_cwd/1 typespec
OTP-11787
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/src/file.erl | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index b3ec9fd33d..6d4b1cb2db 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -1630,6 +1630,11 @@ <desc> <p>Sets the current working directory of the file server to <c><anno>Dir</anno></c>. Returns <c>ok</c> if successful.</p> + <p>The functions in the <c>file</c> module usually treat binaries + as raw filenames, i.e. they are passed as is even when the encoding + of the binary does not agree with <c>file:native_name_encoding()</c>. + This function however expects binaries to be encoded according to the + value returned by <c>file:native_name_encoding()</c>.</p> <p>Typical error reasons are:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>enoent</c></tag> @@ -1654,8 +1659,8 @@ <tag><c>no_translation</c></tag> <item> <p><c><anno>Dir</anno></c> is a <c>binary()</c> with - characters coded in ISO-latin-1 and the VM was started - with the parameter <c>+fnue</c>.</p> + characters coded in ISO-latin-1 and the VM is operating + with unicode file name encoding.</p> </item> </taglist> <warning> diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl index 23cf74f80f..20b703e084 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl +++ b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl @@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ get_cwd(Drive) -> check_and_call(get_cwd, [file_name(Drive)]). -spec set_cwd(Dir) -> ok | {error, Reason} when - Dir :: name(), + Dir :: name() | EncodedBinary, + EncodedBinary :: binary(), Reason :: posix() | badarg | no_translation. set_cwd(Dirname) -> |