Add Error impls to a few key error types

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/io/mod.rs b/src/libstd/io/mod.rs
index c6f237ff1da..3dcd8d792a4 100644
--- a/src/libstd/io/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/io/mod.rs
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ responding to errors that may occur while attempting to read the numbers.
 #![deny(unused_must_use)]
 
 use char::Char;
+use clone::Clone;
 use default::Default;
+use error::{FromError, Error};
 use fmt;
 use int;
 use iter::Iterator;
@@ -433,6 +435,22 @@ impl fmt::Show for IoError {
     }
 }
 
+impl Error for IoError {
+    fn description(&self) -> &str {
+        self.desc
+    }
+
+    fn detail(&self) -> Option<String> {
+        self.detail.clone()
+    }
+}
+
+impl FromError<IoError> for Box<Error> {
+    fn from_error(err: IoError) -> Box<Error> {
+        box err
+    }
+}
+
 /// A list specifying general categories of I/O error.
 #[deriving(PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Show)]
 pub enum IoErrorKind {