Rollup merge of #59470 - czipperz:document-fs-file-close, r=dtolnay

Document std::fs::File close behavior ignoring errors

Resolves #52685
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Mazdak Farrokhzad 2019-04-04 15:08:59 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ use crate::time::SystemTime;
/// it was opened with. Files also implement [`Seek`] to alter the logical cursor
/// that the file contains internally.
///
/// Files are automatically closed when they go out of scope.
/// Files are automatically closed when they go out of scope. Errors detected
/// on closing are ignored by the implementation of `Drop`. Use the method
/// [`sync_all`] if these errors must be manually handled.
///
/// # Examples
///
@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ use crate::time::SystemTime;
/// [`Read`]: ../io/trait.Read.html
/// [`Write`]: ../io/trait.Write.html
/// [`BufReader<R>`]: ../io/struct.BufReader.html
/// [`sync_all`]: struct.File.html#method.sync_all
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub struct File {
inner: fs_imp::File,
@ -391,9 +394,13 @@ impl File {
/// Attempts to sync all OS-internal metadata to disk.
///
/// This function will attempt to ensure that all in-core data reaches the
/// This function will attempt to ensure that all in-memory data reaches the
/// filesystem before returning.
///
/// This can be used to handle errors that would otherwise only be caught
/// when the `File` is closed. Dropping a file will ignore errors in
/// synchronizing this in-memory data.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```no_run