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2012-01-27Move types and specs from erl_bif_types.erl to modulesHans Bolinder
2011-12-08Merge branch 'egil/file-info-opt-utc/OTP-7687'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/file-info-opt-utc/OTP-7687: (39 commits) Remove time_t specific test in prim_file_SUITE Update prim_file.beam and prim_zip.beam Add types for posixtime_to_universaltime and the reverse Set BASEYEAR to 1902 Set lower limit of years handled to 1601 Emulate localtime, gmtime and mktime to enable negative time_t Document file:*_file_info/2 Fix compiler warning in unix_efile.c Change name of bif universaltime_to_seconds/1 Change options to prim_file:*_file_info/* Remove dead code Catch errors from prim_file:*_file_info Testcase for utc <-> seconds conversion Fix negative time in seconds_to_universaltime/1 Remove OS taint from datetime conversion Add utc <-> seconds conversions bifs Let prim_file validate ctime in file_info Teach #file_info spec unix epochs for file times Add file_info_opt tests in prim_file_SUITE unix_efile: Zero is a valid number in utime ... Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_time_sup.c erts/emulator/sys/win32/erl_win_sys.h erts/emulator/sys/win32/sys_time.c
2011-12-08Document file:*_file_info/2Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* file:read_file_info/2 * file:write_file_info/3 Document options and time behavior.
2011-12-05file: correct make_link/2 and make_symlink/2 docsTuncer Ayaz
2011-12-02Remove header/trailer supportLukas Larsson
Since the API for headers/trailers seem to be very awkward to work with when using non-blocking io the feature is dropped for now. See unix_efile.c for more details.
2011-12-02Expand sendfile documentationLukas Larsson
2011-11-29Implement file:sendfileTuncer Ayaz
Allow Erlang code to use sendfile() where available by wrapping it as file:sendfile/4 and file:sendfile/2. sendfile(2) - Linux man page: "sendfile() copies data between one file descriptor and another. Because this copying is done within the kernel, sendfile() is more efficient than the combination of read(2) and write(2), which would require transferring data to and from user space."
2011-09-26Correct XML filesHans Bolinder
2011-06-20Add more specs and typesHans Bolinder
An incorrect spec, rpc:yield/1, has been fixed.
2011-05-11Use Erlang specs and types for documentationHans Bolinder
2010-12-10Fix a couple typos in filename encoding docsTuncer Ayaz
2010-12-01Add documentation about raw filenames and Unicode file name translation modePatrik Nyblom
2010-10-14Add the {encoding, _} options to file:open/2's modesKostis Sagonas
Although the {encoding, encoding()} set of options is documented in the manual page of the 'file' module, they do not appear in the Mode description on that page nor in the mode() type declaration. The patch adds this information in both the code of the module and the documentation of the module. To avoid duplication, the declaration of the encoding() type is added to the 'unicode' module where it most probably belongs. While at it, added a proper declaration for posix(), took out the now superfluous information about the types of file:open/2 from the erl_bif_types module, and corrected the return type of file:open/2 so that it corresponds to the published documentation.
2010-06-11Correct trivial typos in file manualTuncer Ayaz
Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]>
2010-06-04Support opening files in exclusive modeMichael Santos
Add an option that atomically tests for the existence of a file and creates it if the file does not exist, by passing the O_EXCL flag to open() on Unix and CREATE_NEW flag on Windows. Support for O_EXCL varies across platforms and filesystems. {ok, Fd} = file:open("/tmp/foo", [write,exclusive]), {error, eexist} = file:open("/tmp/foo", [write,exclusive]).
2010-05-20Add file:advise/4 - a wrapper to the POSIX syscall posix_fadviseFilipe David Manana
Useful for informing the Operating System about the access pattern for a file's data, so that it can adapt the caching strategy to maximize disk IO performance.
2010-05-20Add file:datasync/1 for syncing file contents onlyFilipe David Manana
file:datasync/1 invokes the POSIX system call "int fdatasync(int fd)". This system call is similar to "fsync" but, unlike fsync, it does not update the metadata associated with the file (like the access time for example). It's used by many DBMSs (MySQL and SQLite of example) to increase disk IO performance, as it avoids disk seeks and disk write operations compared to fsync. More details on it at: http://linux.die.net/man/2/fdatasync An example, from the MySQL source: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-5.1-telco-6.1/annotate/head%3A/mysys/my_sync.c#L61 This new function just calls fsync on systems not implementing fdatasync.
2010-03-19kernel: document the file:change_mode/2 functionAndrey Pampukha
2009-12-03Corrected CR and LF clarification in file:read_line, removed extra backslash.Patrik Nyblom
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP