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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index dcb9640dcf..831ef1c22a 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -8,16 +8,17 @@ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> - The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, - Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in - compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the - Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be - retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. + Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" - basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See - the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations - under the License. + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. </legalnotice> @@ -86,9 +87,10 @@ <name name="deep_list"/> </datatype> <datatype> - <name><marker id="type-fd">fd()</marker></name> + <name>fd()</name> <desc> - <p>A file descriptor representing a file opened in <seealso + <p><marker id="type-fd"/> + A file descriptor representing a file opened in <seealso marker="#raw">raw</seealso> mode.</p> </desc> </datatype> @@ -490,7 +492,7 @@ <name name="list_dir" arity="1"/> <fsummary>List files in a directory</fsummary> <desc> - <p>Lists all files in a directory, <b>except</b> files + <p>Lists all files in a directory, <em>except</em> files with "raw" names. Returns <c>{ok, <anno>Filenames</anno>}</c> if successful. Otherwise, it returns <c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>. @@ -1192,8 +1194,8 @@ and <c>read_line/1</c> are the only ways to read from a file opened in raw mode (although they work for normally opened files, too).</p> - <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, why the position in the file might be moved a lot more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p> - <p>Also if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p> + <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, while the position in the file might be moved much more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p> + <p>Also, if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, which is why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p> <p>The function returns:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>{ok, <anno>Data</anno>}</c></tag> @@ -1306,15 +1308,15 @@ <item> <p>The current system access to the file.</p> </item> - <tag><c>atime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> + <tag><c>atime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> <item> <p>The last time the file was read.</p> </item> - <tag><c>mtime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> + <tag><c>mtime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> <item> <p>The last time the file was written.</p> </item> - <tag><c>ctime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >=0</c></tag> + <tag><c>ctime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >=0</c></tag> <item> <p>The interpretation of this time field depends on the operating system. On Unix, it is the last time @@ -1693,9 +1695,9 @@ <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 @@ -1703,11 +1705,11 @@ 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> @@ -1744,7 +1746,7 @@ See <seealso marker="gen_tcp#controlling_process-2">gen_tcp:controlling_process/2</seealso></p> <p>If the OS used does not support sendfile, an Erlang fallback using file:read and gen_tcp:send is used.</p> - <p>The option list can contain the following options: + <p>The option list can contain the following options:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>chunk_size</c></tag> <item>The chunk size used by the erlang fallback to send @@ -1759,7 +1761,6 @@ the sendfile call will return <c>{error,einval}</c>. Introduced in Erlang/OTP 17.0. Default is false.</item> </taglist> - </p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -1850,22 +1851,21 @@ Type <c>local</c> will interpret the time set as local, <c>universal</c> will 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>. + 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> - </p> <p>The following fields are used from the record, if they are given.</p> <taglist> - <tag><c>atime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> + <tag><c>atime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> <item> <p>The last time the file was read.</p> </item> - <tag><c>mtime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> + <tag><c>mtime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> <item> <p>The last time the file was written.</p> </item> - <tag><c>ctime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> + <tag><c>ctime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag> <item> <p>On Unix, any value give for this field will be ignored (the "ctime" for the file will be set to the current |