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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 28 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index b3ec9fd33d..dcb9640dcf 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This function is obsolete.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> @@ -642,6 +634,11 @@ <item> <p>Symbolic links are not supported on this platform.</p> </item> + <tag><c>eperm</c></tag> + <item> + <p>User does not have privileges to create symbolic links + (<c>SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege</c> on Windows).</p> + </item> </taglist> </desc> </func> @@ -1286,6 +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 @@ -1512,6 +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 @@ -1630,6 +1631,11 @@ <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 +1660,8 @@ <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> @@ -1845,6 +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> |