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| author | Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br> | 2019-04-18 17:45:04 -0300 |
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| committer | Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br> | 2019-05-14 11:16:58 -0300 |
| commit | bd3f4f05bb6dafdedbae5671ee50c769a3560021 (patch) | |
| tree | 45c7a8e844a8f7b10cce1b6e20646fece3ef20a6 /lib/kernel/doc | |
| parent | c6d5af1054f8d555a69111f29b59d5485ef8e48f (diff) | |
| download | erlang-bd3f4f05bb6dafdedbae5671ee50c769a3560021.tar.gz | |
file: allow open/2 to work on directories
This is useful mainly to ensure that a new file has been persisted
to disk by calling file:sync/1 or file:datasync/1 on file's parent
directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index fc25e83d40..b3e8149cc2 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -939,6 +939,10 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. support for POSIX <c>O_SYNC</c> or equivalent, use of the <c>sync</c> flag causes <c>open</c> to return <c>{error, enotsup}</c>.</p> </item> + <tag><c>directory</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Allows <c>open</c> to work on directories.</p> + </item> </taglist> <p>Returns:</p> <taglist> @@ -985,8 +989,10 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. </item> <tag><c>enotdir</c></tag> <item> - <p>A component of the filename is not a directory. On some - platforms, <c>enoent</c> is returned instead.</p> + <p>A component of the filename is not a directory, or the + filename itself is not a directory if <c>directory</c> + mode was specified. On some platforms, <c>enoent</c> is + returned instead.</p> </item> <tag><c>enospc</c></tag> <item> |