[erlang-bugs] io device() type incomplete

[Steve Vinoski]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Hans Bolinder
<hans.bolinder@REDACTED>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> [Steve Vinoski]:
>
> >  The io man page defines the device() type as follows:
> >      device() = atom() | pid()
> >
> >      An IO device. Either standard_io, standard_error, a registered
> >      name, or a pid handling IO protocols (returned from file:open/2).
> >
> >    But this is incomplete, since file:open/2 can also return an
> >    instance of a file_descriptor record.
> >
> > Also meant to add that there are functions in the io module that take
> > device() type parameters but do not handle file_descriptor records.
>
> If file:open() is called with the 'raw' option a file_descriptor
> record is returned. It cannot be used with the io module.
>
> I'm not sure, but perhaps you've confused the types io:device() and
> file:io_device() with each other?
>

Yes, I did. My mistake, apologies for the noise.

--steve
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