The set of errors forwarded by the os package varied with system and
was therefore non-portable.
Three helpers added for portable error checking: IsExist, IsNotExist, and IsPermission.
One or two more may need to come, but let's keep the set very small to discourage
thinking about errors that way.
R=mikioh.mikioh, gustavo, r, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5672047
An experiment: allow structs to be copied even if they
contain unexported fields. This gives packages the
ability to return opaque values in their APIs, like reflect
does for reflect.Value but without the kludgy hacks reflect
resorts to.
In general, we trust programmers not to do silly things
like *x = *y on a package's struct pointers, just as we trust
programmers not to do unicode.Letter = unicode.Digit,
but packages that want a harder guarantee can introduce
an extra level of indirection, like in the changes to os.File
in this CL or by using an interface type.
All in one CL so that it can be rolled back more easily if
we decide this is a bad idea.
Originally discussed in March 2011.
https://groups.google.com/group/golang-dev/t/3f5d30938c7c45ef
R=golang-dev, adg, dvyukov, r, bradfitz, jan.mercl, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372095
The environment is needed by package time, which
we want not to depend on os (so that os can use
time.Time), so push down into syscall.
Delete syscall.Sleep, now unnecessary.
The package os environment API is preserved;
it is only the implementation that is moving to syscall.
Delete os.Envs, which was undocumented,
uninitialized on Windows and Plan 9, and
not maintained by Setenv and Clearenv.
Code can call os.Environ instead.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5370091
- syscall (not os) now defines the Errno type.
- the low-level assembly functions Syscall, Syscall6, and so on
return Errno, not uintptr
- syscall wrappers all return error, not uintptr.
R=golang-dev, mikioh.mikioh, r, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372080
Move the Signal interface from exec_posix.go to exec.go.
Remove some unsused code from file_plan9.go.
R=fshahriar, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4683044
We replace the current Open with:
OpenFile(name, flag, perm) // same as old Open
Open(name) // same as old Open(name, O_RDONLY, 0)
Create(name) // same as old Open(name, O_RDWR|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0666)
This CL includes a gofix module and full code updates: all.bash passes.
(There may be a few comments I missed.)
The interesting packages are:
gofix
os
Everything else is automatically generated except for hand tweaks to:
src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
src/pkg/io/ioutil/tempfile.go
src/pkg/crypto/tls/generate_cert.go
src/cmd/goyacc/goyacc.go
src/cmd/goyacc/units.y
R=golang-dev, bradfitzwork, rsc, r2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4357052
