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2011-03-11Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-02-14Fix -spec for file:write_file/3Magnus Henoch
Change type for second parameter from binary() to iodata(), since the function explicitly takes steps to accept lists as well as binaries.
2010-12-03Merge branch 'ks/erl_bif_types-cleanup/OTP-8961' into devPatrik Nyblom
* ks/erl_bif_types-cleanup/OTP-8961: Fix type information of 'file' and 'code' modules Conflicts: lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl
2010-11-30Teach file to accept codepoints beyond 255.Patrik Nyblom
2010-11-30Handle binary file names and conversion of unicode stringsPatrik Nyblom
2010-11-29Teach filename to accept raw data and add filename enc option to emuPatrik Nyblom
2010-11-29Fix type information of 'file' and 'code' modulesKostis Sagonas
Dialyzer for a long time now has had hard-coded type information about key functions of the 'file' and 'code' modules in 'erl_bif_types'. Some of this information was not up-to-date according to the published Erlang/OTP documentation, while some other part contained small errors. Now that specs are available, this information should be moved to the corresponding files, not be hard-coded in erl_bif_types. This change takes out all information for the 'file' module and fixes some small errors in type information for the 'code' module.
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.
2010-06-08Change typespecs for file.erl to match realityPatrik Nyblom
2010-06-07Merge branch 'ms/file-exclusive-mode' into devErlang/OTP
* ms/file-exclusive-mode: Update preloaded modules Support opening files in exclusive mode OTP-8670 ms/file-exclusive-mode There is a new option 'exclusive' to file:open/2 that uses the OS O_EXCL flag where supported to open the file in exclusive mode.
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]).
2010-06-03kernel: Add declaration for exported typesKostis Sagonas
2010-06-01Teach file:write/read/read_line about named io_serversPatrik Nyblom
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.
2010-03-07file.hrl: Move out type declarationsKostis Sagonas
Having various type declarations in the file.hrl file was once upon a time necessary since the system could not really handle remote types. Now it can and these declarations should not be there but appear in file.erl instead. This means that files that need to use these types can refer to them using a remote type reference, and not having to include file.hrl - at least not for this reason.
2010-02-14file.erl: Add a type to be used from other modulesKostis Sagonas
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP