Tcl - Error in Tcl documentation?

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Error in Tcl documentation?

Googie

2005-02-25, 9:00 pm

In Tcl manuals (for 8.4) I can read description for Tcl_FSAccess 'mode'
argument, that it's:

int mode (in)
Mask consisting of one or more of R_OK, W_OK, X_OK and F_OK. R_OK,
W_OK and X_OK request checking whether the file exists and has read,
write and execute permissions, respectively. F_OK just requests
checking for the existence of the file.

But in the fact, there is no R_OK, W_OK, or any other *_OK. Well?
What's going on?

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Pozdrawiam (Greetings)!
Googie

Steve Bold

2005-02-26, 3:59 pm

R_OK and friends are defined in system header files and are part of the interface to
the access() function in the operating system interface.

I think that a properly configured Tcl install will contain #includes to the appropriate
system header files, likely io.h or unistd.h, so maybe there's a configuration problem?

"Googie" <googie@no.spam.org> wrote in message news:cvob1d$jb5$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
> In Tcl manuals (for 8.4) I can read description for Tcl_FSAccess 'mode'
> argument, that it's:
>
> int mode (in)
> Mask consisting of one or more of R_OK, W_OK, X_OK and F_OK. R_OK,
> W_OK and X_OK request checking whether the file exists and has read,
> write and execute permissions, respectively. F_OK just requests
> checking for the existence of the file.
>
> But in the fact, there is no R_OK, W_OK, or any other *_OK. Well?
> What's going on?
>
> --
> Pozdrawiam (Greetings)!
> Googie

Don Porter

2005-02-28, 9:00 pm

George Petasis wrote:
> I think that this is a tcl bug, and I suggest to file a bug at
> sourceforge...

Already done; Tcl Bug 945570.

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