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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filelib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filelib.xml
index 80c4acffdb..3b5be75bc0 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filelib.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filelib.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2017</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2018</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -45,6 +45,30 @@
<p>For more information about raw filenames, see the
<seealso marker="kernel:file"><c>file</c></seealso> module.</p>
+
+ <note>
+ <p>
+ Functionality in this module generally assumes valid input and
+ does not necessarily fail on input that does not use a valid
+ encoding, but may instead very likely produce invalid output.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ File operations used to accept filenames containing
+ null characters (integer value zero). This caused
+ the name to be truncated and in some cases arguments
+ to primitive operations to be mixed up. Filenames
+ containing null characters inside the filename
+ are now <em>rejected</em> and will cause primitive
+ file operations to fail.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+ <warning><p>
+ Currently null characters at the end of the filename
+ will be accepted by primitive file operations. Such
+ filenames are however still documented as invalid. The
+ implementation will also change in the future and
+ reject such filenames.
+ </p></warning>
</description>
<datatypes>
@@ -193,6 +217,11 @@
<p>Other characters represent themselves. Only filenames that
have exactly the same character in the same position match.
Matching is case-sensitive, for example, "a" does not match "A".</p>
+ <p>Directory separators must always be written as <c>/</c>, even on
+ Windows.</p>
+ <p>A character preceded by <c>\</c> loses its special meaning. Note
+ that <c>\</c> must be written as <c>\\</c> in a string literal.
+ For example, "\\?*" will match any filename starting with <c>?</c>.</p>
<p>Notice that multiple "*" characters are allowed
(as in Unix wildcards, but opposed to Windows/DOS wildcards).</p>
<p><em>Examples:</em></p>
@@ -267,7 +296,7 @@ filelib:wildcard("lib/**/*.{erl,hrl}")</code>
for a file with the extension <c>.beam</c>, the default rule is to
look for a file with a corresponding extension <c>.erl</c> by
replacing the suffix <c>"ebin"</c> of the object directory path with
- <c>"src"</c>.
+ <c>"src"</c> or <c>"src/*"</c>.
The file search is done through <seealso
marker="#find_file/3"><c>find_file/3</c></seealso>. The directory of
the object file is always tried before any other directory specified