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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index 8dae34431b..338d62e82b 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -428,14 +428,6 @@ </desc> </func> <func> - <name name="file_info" arity="1"/> - <fsummary>Get information about a file (deprecated)</fsummary> - <desc> - <p>This function is obsolete. Use <c>read_file_info/1,2</c> - instead.</p> - </desc> - </func> - <func> <name name="format_error" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Return a descriptive string for an error reason</fsummary> <desc> @@ -1291,6 +1283,8 @@ 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 +1511,8 @@ 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 @@ -1697,9 +1693,9 @@ <desc> <p>Makes sure that any buffers kept by the operating system (not by the Erlang runtime system) are written to disk. In - many ways it's resembles fsync but it not requires to update - some of file's metadata such as the access time. On - some platforms, this function might have no effect.</p> + many ways it resembles fsync but it does not update + some of the file's metadata such as the access time. On + some platforms this function has no effect.</p> <p>Applications that access databases or log files often write a tiny data fragment (e.g., one line in a log file) and then call fsync() immediately in order to ensure that the written @@ -1707,11 +1703,11 @@ will always initiate two write operations: one for the newly written data and another one in order to update the modification time stored in the inode. If the modification time is not a part - of the transaction concept fdatasync() can be used to avoid + of the transaction concept, fdatasync() can be used to avoid unnecessary inode disk write operations.</p> - <p>Available only in some POSIX systems. This call results in a - call to fsync(), or has no effect, in systems not implementing - the fdatasync syscall.</p> + <p>Available only in some POSIX systems, this call results in a + call to fsync(), or has no effect in systems not implementing + the fdatasync() syscall.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -1855,6 +1851,8 @@ 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> |