philip Mon Nov 18 18:29:58 2002 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/dio reference.xml
Log:
Improved the description on when one might need to use DIO. This also
closes bug #15806.
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/dio/reference.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/dio/reference.xml:1.4
phpdoc/en/reference/dio/reference.xml:1.5
--- phpdoc/en/reference/dio/reference.xml:1.4 Fri Aug 9 06:25:59 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/dio/reference.xml Mon Nov 18 18:29:58 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
<reference id="ref.dio">
<title>Direct IO functions</title>
<titleabbrev>DIO functions</titleabbrev>
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@
<para>
PHP supports the direct io functions as described in the Posix
Standard (Section 6) for performing I/O functions at a lower
- level than the C-Language stream I/O functions (fopen, fread,..).
+ level than the C-Language stream I/O functions
+ (<function>fopen</function>, <function>fread</function>,..). The use
+ of the DIO functions should be considered only when direct
+ control of a device is needed. In all other cases, the standard
+ <link linkend="ref.filesystem">filesystem</link> functions are more
+ than adequate.
</para>
</section>
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