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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index 6437855f94..8dae34431b 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -1635,6 +1635,11 @@ <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> @@ -1659,8 +1664,8 @@ <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> @@ -1756,7 +1761,7 @@ using async threads potentially makes your system volnerable to slow client attacks. If set to true and no async threads are available, the sendfile call will return <c>{error,einval}</c>. - Introduced in 17.0. Default is false.</item> + Introduced in Erlang/OTP 17.0. Default is false.</item> </taglist> </p> </desc> |