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| author | Tobias Bucher <tobiasbucher5991@gmail.com> | 2017-10-31 10:41:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Bucher <tobiasbucher5991@gmail.com> | 2017-10-31 10:41:10 +0100 |
| commit | afc7106a2970e38601eeb52a39559509acf1de29 (patch) | |
| tree | e6a3541824fd14cd6346b7eba2ea55bf74d31720 /src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs | |
| parent | 6713736275181abb3304730603afd785b0470ae3 (diff) | |
| download | rust-afc7106a2970e38601eeb52a39559509acf1de29.tar.gz rust-afc7106a2970e38601eeb52a39559509acf1de29.zip | |
Update doc comment for the Unix extension module
It was a bit outdated, claimed to be able to do less than it actually could.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs index 98bc90dd4e1..c221f7c8cfe 100644 --- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs +++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs @@ -10,8 +10,14 @@ //! Experimental extensions to `std` for Unix platforms. //! -//! For now, this module is limited to extracting file descriptors, -//! but its functionality will grow over time. +//! Provides access to platform-level information on Unix platforms, and +//! exposes Unix-specific functions that would otherwise be inappropriate as +//! part of the core `std` library. +//! +//! It exposes more ways to deal with platform-specific strings (`OsStr`, +//! `OsString`), allows to set permissions more granularly, extract low-level +//! file descriptors from files and sockets, and has platform-specific helpers +//! for spawning processes. //! //! # Examples //! |