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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml110
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml103
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml21
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml15
7 files changed, 237 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dict.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dict.xml
index 942fd1f45e..0771682a25 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dict.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dict.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
<c><anno>Dict</anno></c> together with an extra argument <c>Acc</c>
(short for accumulator). <c><anno>Fun</anno></c> must return a new
accumulator which is passed to the next call. <c><anno>Acc0</anno></c> is
- returned if the list is empty. The evaluation order is
+ returned if the dict is empty. The evaluation order is
undefined.</p>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
index 7f25f5b7bc..95eefb8f9b 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
</section>
<section>
+ <title>OTHER STORAGE MEDIA</title>
+ <p>The <c>erl_ftp</c> module normally accesses the tar-file on disk using the <seealso marker="kernel:file">file module</seealso>. When other needs arise, there is a way to define your own low-level Erlang functions to perform the writing and reading on the storage media. See <seealso marker="#init/3">init/3</seealso> for usage.</p>
+ <p>An example of this is the sftp support in <seealso marker="ssh:ssh_sftp#open_tar/3">ssh_sftp:open_tar/3</seealso>. That function opens a tar file on a remote machine using an sftp channel.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<title>LIMITATIONS</title>
<p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names
up to 100 characters in length. Such tar files can generally be
@@ -99,7 +105,8 @@
<v>TarDescriptor = term()</v>
<v>Filename = filename()</v>
<v>Options = [Option]</v>
- <v>Option = dereference|verbose</v>
+ <v>Option = dereference|verbose|{chunks,ChunkSize}</v>
+ <v>ChunkSize = positive_integer()</v>
<v>RetValue = ok|{error,{Filename,Reason}}</v>
<v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
@@ -119,6 +126,12 @@
<item>
<p>Print an informational message about the file being added.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{chunks,ChunkSize}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Read data in parts from the file. This is intended for memory-limited
+ machines that for example builds a tar file on a remote machine over
+ <seealso marker="ssh:ssh_sftp#open_tar/3">sftp</seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -389,6 +402,101 @@
</warning>
</desc>
</func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name>init(UserPrivate, AccessMode, Fun) -> {ok,TarDescriptor} | {error,Reason}
+</name>
+ <fsummary>Creates a TarDescriptor used in subsequent tar operations when
+ defining own low-level storage access functions
+ </fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>UserPrivate = term()</v>
+ <v>AccessMode = [write] | [read]</v>
+ <v>Fun when AccessMode is [write] = fun(write, {UserPrivate,DataToWrite})->...;
+ (position,{UserPrivate,Position})->...;
+ (close, UserPrivate)->...
+ end
+ </v>
+ <v>Fun when AccessMode is [read] = fun(read2, {UserPrivate,Size})->...;
+ (position,{UserPrivate,Position})->...;
+ (close, UserPrivate)->...
+ end
+ </v>
+ <v>TarDescriptor = term()</v>
+ <v>Reason = term()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The <c>Fun</c> is the definition of what to do when the different
+ storage operations functions are to be called from the higher tar
+ handling functions (<c>add/3</c>, <c>add/4</c>, <c>close/1</c>...).
+ </p>
+ <p>The <c>Fun</c> will be called when the tar function wants to do
+ a low-level operation, like writing a block to a file. The Fun is called
+ as <c>Fun(Op,{UserPrivate,Parameters...})</c> where <c>Op</c> is the operation name,
+ <c>UserPrivate</c> is the term passed as the first argument to <c>init/1</c> and
+ <c>Parameters...</c> are the data added by the tar function to be passed down to
+ the storage handling function.
+ </p>
+ <p>The parameter <c>UserPrivate</c> is typically the result of opening a low level
+ structure like a file descriptor, a sftp channel id or such. The different <c>Fun</c>
+ clauses operates on that very term.
+ </p>
+ <p>The fun clauses parameter lists are:
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>(write, {UserPrivate,DataToWrite})</c></tag>
+ <item>Write the term <c>DataToWrite</c> using <c>UserPrivate</c></item>
+ <tag><c>(close, UserPrivate)</c></tag>
+ <item>Close the access.</item>
+ <tag><c>(read2, {UserPrivate,Size})</c></tag>
+ <item>Read using <c>UserPrivate</c> but only <c>Size</c> bytes. Note that there is
+ only an arity-2 read function, not an arity-1
+ </item>
+ <tag><c> (position,{UserPrivate,Position})</c></tag>
+ <item>Sets the position of <c>UserPrivate</c> as defined for files in <seealso marker="kernel:file#position-2">file:position/2</seealso></item>
+ <tag><c></c></tag>
+ <item></item>
+ </taglist>
+ </p>
+ <p>A complete <c>Fun</c> parameter for reading and writing on files using the
+ <seealso marker="kernel:file">file module</seealso> could be:
+ </p>
+ <code type="none">
+ ExampleFun =
+ fun(write, {Fd,Data}) -> file:write(Fd, Data);
+ (position, {Fd,Pos}) -> file:position(Fd, Pos);
+ (read2, {Fd,Size}) -> file:read(Fd,Size);
+ (close, Fd) -> file:close(Fd)
+ end
+ </code>
+ <p>where <c>Fd</c> was given to the <c>init/3</c> function as:</p>
+ <code>
+ {ok,Fd} = file:open(Name,...).
+ {ok,TarDesc} = erl_tar:init(Fd, [write], ExampleFun),
+ </code>
+ <p>The <c>TarDesc</c> is then used:</p>
+ <code>
+ erl_tar:add(TarDesc, SomeValueIwantToAdd, FileNameInTarFile),
+ ....,
+ erl_tar:close(TarDesc)
+ </code>
+ <p>When the erl_tar core wants to e.g. write a piece of Data, it would call
+ <c>ExampleFun(write,{UserPrivate,Data})</c>.
+ </p>
+ <note>
+ <p>The example above with <c>file</c> module operations is not necessary to
+ use directly since that is what the <seealso marker="#open">open</seealso> function
+ in principle does.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+ <warning>
+ <p>The <c>TarDescriptor</c> term is not a file descriptor.
+ You should not rely on the specific contents of the <c>TarDescriptor</c>
+ term, as it may change in future versions as more features are added
+ to the <c>erl_tar</c> module.</p>
+ </warning>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
<func>
<name>table(Name) -> RetValue</name>
<fsummary>Retrieve the name of all files in a tar file</fsummary>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
index 9328704e11..21da404c35 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ current I/O-protocol.</p>
<p>The original I/O-protocol was simple and flexible. Demands for spacial
and execution time efficiency has triggered extensions to the protocol
over the years, making the protocol larger and somewhat less easy to
-implement than the original. It can certainly be argumented that the
+implement than the original. It can certainly be argued that the
current protocol is too complex, but this text describes how it looks
today, not how it should have looked.</p>
@@ -76,10 +76,11 @@ the server eventually sends a corresponding <c>io_reply</c> tuple.</p>
the I/O server sends the IO reply to.</item>
<item><c>ReplyAs</c> can be any datum and is returned in the corresponding
-<c>io_reply</c>. The <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io</seealso> module simply uses the pid()
-of the I/O server as the <c>ReplyAs</c> datum, but a more complicated client
+<c>io_reply</c>. The <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io</seealso> module monitors
+the I/O server, and uses the monitor reference as the <c>ReplyAs</c> datum.
+A more complicated client
could have several outstanding I/O requests to the same I/O server and
-would then use i.e. a <c>reference()</c> or something else to differentiate among
+would then use different references (or something else) to differentiate among
the incoming IO replies. The <c>ReplyAs</c> element should be considered
opaque by the I/O server. Note that the <c>pid()</c> of the I/O server is not
explicitly present in the <c>io_reply</c> tuple. The reply can be sent from any
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
index 64229fa8d3..f766c843be 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ false</code>
<code type="none">
> Map = #{42 => value_three,1337 => "value two","a" => 1},
Ks = ["a",42,"other key"],
- maps:without(Ks,Map).
+ maps:with(Ks,Map).
#{42 => value_three,"a" => 1}</code>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
index ebc750a399..8582bfc9f9 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,109 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p>
+<section><title>STDLIB 2.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The documentation of string:tokens/2 now explicitly
+ specifies that adjacent separator characters do not give
+ any empty strings in the resulting list of tokens.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12036</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix broken deprecation warnings in ssh application</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12187</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Maps: Properly align union typed assoc values in
+ documentation</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12190</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix filelib:wildcard/2 when 'Cwd' ends with a dot</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12212</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Allow <c>Name/Arity</c> syntax in maps values inside
+ attributes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12213</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix edlin to correctly save text killed with ctrl-u.
+ Prior to this fix, entering text into the Erlang shell
+ and then killing it with ctrl-u followed by yanking it
+ back with ctrl-y would result in the yanked text being
+ the reverse of the original killed text.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12224</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ If a callback function was terminated with exit/1, there
+ would be no stack trace in the ERROR REPORT produced by
+ gen_server. This has been corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ To keep the backwards compatibility, the actual exit
+ reason for the process is not changed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12263 Aux Id: seq12733 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings produced by <c>ms_transform</c> could point out
+ the wrong line number.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12264</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Supports tar file creation on other media than file
+ systems mounted on the local machine.</p>
+ <p>
+ The <c>erl_tar</c> api is extended with
+ <c>erl_tar:init/3</c> that enables usage of user provided
+ media storage routines. A ssh-specific set of such
+ routines is hidden in the new function
+ <c>ssh_sftp:open_tar/3</c> to simplify creating a tar
+ archive on a remote ssh server.</p>
+ <p>
+ A chunked file reading option is added to
+ <c>erl_tar:add/3,4</c> to save memory on e.g small
+ embedded systems. The size of the slices read from a file
+ in that case can be specified.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12180 Aux Id: seq12715 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ I/O requests are optimized for long message queues in the
+ calling process.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12315</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>STDLIB 2.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
index a1833f6a51..5af1468e9b 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ This option makes it possible to include comments inside complicated patterns. N
<tag><c>no_start_optimize</c></tag>
<item>This option disables optimization that may malfunction if "Special start-of-pattern items" are present in the regular expression. A typical example would be when matching "DEFABC" against "(*COMMIT)ABC", where the start optimization of PCRE would skip the subject up to the "A" and would never realize that the (*COMMIT) instruction should have made the matching fail. This option is only relevant if you use "start-of-pattern items", as discussed in the section "PCRE regular expression details" below.</item>
<tag><c>ucp</c></tag>
- <item>Specifies that Unicode Character Properties should be used when resolving \B, \b, \D, \d, \S, \s, \Wand \w. Without this flag, only ISO-Latin-1 properties are used. Using Unicode properties hurts performance, but is semantically correct when working with Unicode characters beyond the ISO-Latin-1 range.</item>
+ <item>Specifies that Unicode Character Properties should be used when
+ resolving \B, \b, \D, \d, \S, \s, \W and \w. Without this flag, only
+ ISO-Latin-1 properties are used. Using Unicode properties hurts
+ performance, but is semantically correct when working with Unicode
+ characters beyond the ISO-Latin-1 range.</item>
<tag><c>never_utf</c></tag>
<item>Specifies that the (*UTF) and/or (*UTF8) "start-of-pattern items" are forbidden. This flag can not be combined with <c>unicode</c>. Useful if ISO-Latin-1 patterns from an external source are to be compiled.</item>
</taglist>
@@ -966,7 +970,7 @@ appearance causes an error.
</quote>
<p>This has the same effect as setting the <c>ucp</c> option: it causes sequences
such as \d and \w to use Unicode properties to determine character types,
-instead of recognizing only characters with codes less than 128 via a lookup
+instead of recognizing only characters with codes less than 256 via a lookup
table.
</p>
@@ -1307,7 +1311,8 @@ By default, the definition of letters and digits is controlled by PCRE's
low-valued character tables, in Erlang's case (and without the <c>unicode</c> option),
the ISO-Latin-1 character set.</p>
-<p>By default, in <c>unicode</c> mode, characters with values greater than 128 never match
+<p>By default, in <c>unicode</c> mode, characters with values greater than 255,
+i.e. all characters outside the ISO-Latin-1 character set, never match
\d, \s, or \w, and always match \D, \S, and \W. These sequences retain
their original meanings from before UTF support was available, mainly for
efficiency reasons. However, if the <c>ucp</c> option is set, the behaviour is changed so that Unicode
@@ -1954,10 +1959,10 @@ can be included in a class as a literal string of data units, or by using the
upper case and lower case versions, so for example, a caseless [aeiou] matches
"A" as well as "a", and a caseless [^aeiou] does not match "A", whereas a
caseful version would. In a UTF mode, PCRE always understands the concept of
-case for characters whose values are less than 128, so caseless matching is
+case for characters whose values are less than 256, so caseless matching is
always possible. For characters with higher values, the concept of case is
supported if PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support, but not otherwise.
-If you want to use caseless matching in a UTF mode for characters 128 and
+If you want to use caseless matching in a UTF mode for characters 256 and
above, you must ensure that PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support as
well as with UTF support.</p>
@@ -1989,7 +1994,7 @@ matches the letters in either case. For example, [W-c] is equivalent to
[][\\^_`wxyzabc], matched caselessly, and in a non-UTF mode, if character
tables for a French locale are in use, [\xc8-\xcb] matches accented E
characters in both cases. In UTF modes, PCRE supports the concept of case for
-characters with values greater than 128 only when it is compiled with Unicode
+characters with values greater than 255 only when it is compiled with Unicode
property support.</p>
<p>The character escape sequences \d, \D, \h, \H, \p, \P, \s, \S, \v,
@@ -2062,7 +2067,7 @@ by a ^ character after the colon. For example,</p>
syntax [.ch.] and [=ch=] where "ch" is a "collating element", but these are not
supported, and an error is given if they are encountered.</p>
-<p>By default, in UTF modes, characters with values greater than 128 do not match
+<p>By default, in UTF modes, characters with values greater than 255 do not match
any of the POSIX character classes. However, if the PCRE_UCP option is passed
to <b>pcre_compile()</b>, some of the classes are changed so that Unicode
character properties are used. This is achieved by replacing the POSIX classes
@@ -2081,7 +2086,7 @@ by other sequences, as follows:</p>
<p>Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \P instead of \p. The other POSIX
classes are unchanged, and match only characters with code points less than
-128.</p>
+256.</p>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
index bebfbd4514..29b8940c62 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
@@ -50,12 +50,8 @@
encoded files in several circumstances. Most notable is the support
for UTF-8 in files read by <c>file:consult/1</c>, release handler support
for UTF-8 and more support for Unicode character sets in the
- I/O-system.</p>
-
- <p>In Erlang/OTP 17.0, the encoding default for Erlang source files was
- switched to UTF-8 and in Erlang/OTP 18.0 Erlang will support atoms in the full
- Unicode range, meaning full Unicode function and module
- names</p>
+ I/O-system. In Erlang/OTP 17.0, the encoding default for Erlang source files was
+ switched to UTF-8.</p>
<p>This guide outlines the current Unicode support and gives a couple
of recipes for working with Unicode data.</p>
@@ -289,8 +285,8 @@
<tag>The language</tag>
<item>Having the source code in UTF-8 also allows you to write
string literals containing Unicode characters with code points &gt;
- 255, although atoms, module names and function names will be
- restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range until the Erlang/OTP 18.0 release. Binary
+ 255, although atoms, module names and function names are
+ restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range. Binary
literals where you use the <c>/utf8</c> type, can also be
expressed using Unicode characters &gt; 255. Having module names
using characters other than 7-bit ASCII can cause trouble on
@@ -385,8 +381,7 @@ external_charlist() = maybe_improper_list(char() |
using characters from the ISO-latin-1 character set and atoms are
restricted to the same ISO-latin-1 range. These restrictions in the
language are of course independent of the encoding of the source
- file. Erlang/OTP 18.0 is expected to handle functions named in
- Unicode as well as Unicode atoms.</p>
+ file.</p>
<section>
<title>Bit-syntax</title>
<p>The bit-syntax contains types for coping with binary data in the