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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/include/dist.hrl3
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/dist_util.erl5
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/file.erl3
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index b3ec9fd33d..6d4b1cb2db 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -1630,6 +1630,11 @@
<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 +1659,8 @@
<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>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/include/dist.hrl b/lib/kernel/include/dist.hrl
index e32c112e63..77556d1303 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/include/dist.hrl
+++ b/lib/kernel/include/dist.hrl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1999-2013. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1999-2014. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% 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
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@
-define(DFLAG_DIST_HDR_ATOM_CACHE,16#2000).
-define(DFLAG_SMALL_ATOM_TAGS, 16#4000).
-define(DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS, 16#10000).
+-define(DFLAG_MAP_TAG, 16#20000).
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/dist_util.erl b/lib/kernel/src/dist_util.erl
index fc50ec6717..b127fe2e33 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/dist_util.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/dist_util.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1999-2013. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1999-2014. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% 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
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ make_this_flags(RequestType, OtherNode) ->
?DFLAG_UNICODE_IO bor
?DFLAG_DIST_HDR_ATOM_CACHE bor
?DFLAG_SMALL_ATOM_TAGS bor
- ?DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS).
+ ?DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS bor
+ ?DFLAG_MAP_TAG).
handshake_other_started(#hs_data{request_type=ReqType}=HSData0) ->
{PreOtherFlags,Node,Version} = recv_name(HSData0),
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
index 23cf74f80f..20b703e084 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ get_cwd(Drive) ->
check_and_call(get_cwd, [file_name(Drive)]).
-spec set_cwd(Dir) -> ok | {error, Reason} when
- Dir :: name(),
+ Dir :: name() | EncodedBinary,
+ EncodedBinary :: binary(),
Reason :: posix() | badarg | no_translation.
set_cwd(Dirname) ->