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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index fc25e83d40..2c09c84b25 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -939,6 +939,10 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. support for POSIX <c>O_SYNC</c> or equivalent, use of the <c>sync</c> flag causes <c>open</c> to return <c>{error, enotsup}</c>.</p> </item> + <tag><c>directory</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Allows <c>open</c> to work on directories.</p> + </item> </taglist> <p>Returns:</p> <taglist> @@ -953,10 +957,9 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. </item> </taglist> <p><c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> is really the pid of the process that - handles the file. This process is linked to the process - that originally opened the file. If any process to which - the <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> is linked terminates, the file is - closed and the process itself is terminated. + handles the file. This process monitors the process that originally + opened the file (the owner process). If the owner process terminates, + the file is closed and the process itself terminates too. An <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> returned from this call can be used as an argument to the I/O functions (see <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso>).</p> @@ -985,8 +988,10 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. </item> <tag><c>enotdir</c></tag> <item> - <p>A component of the filename is not a directory. On some - platforms, <c>enoent</c> is returned instead.</p> + <p>A component of the filename is not a directory, or the + filename itself is not a directory if <c>directory</c> + mode was specified. On some platforms, <c>enoent</c> is + returned instead.</p> </item> <tag><c>enospc</c></tag> <item> @@ -1438,7 +1443,11 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. break this module's atomicity guarantees as it can race with a concurrent call to <seealso marker="#write_file_info/2"><c>write_file_info/1,2</c> - </seealso></p> + </seealso>.</p> + <p>This option has no effect when the function is + given an I/O device instead of a file name. Use + <seealso marker="#open/2"><c>open/2</c></seealso> with the + <c>raw</c> mode to obtain a file descriptor first.</p> <note> <p>As file times are stored in POSIX time on most OS, it is faster to query file information with option <c>posix</c>.</p> |