[erlang-bugs] io device() type incomplete

[Steve Vinoski]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Steve Vinoski <vinoski@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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.

--steve
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