io

io

Module

io

Module summary

Standard I/O Server Interface Functions

Description

This module provides an interface to standard Erlang I/O servers. The output functions all return ok if they are successful, or exit if they are not.

In the following description, all functions have an optional parameter IoDevice. If included, it must be the pid of a process which handles the IO protocols. Normally, it is the IoDevice returned by file:open/2.

For a description of the IO protocols refer to the STDLIB User's Guide.

Warning

As of R13A, data supplied to the put_chars function should be in the