From afc7106a2970e38601eeb52a39559509acf1de29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Bucher Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:41:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update doc comment for the Unix extension module It was a bit outdated, claimed to be able to do less than it actually could. --- src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs index 98bc90dd4e1..c221f7c8cfe 100644 --- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs +++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/mod.rs @@ -10,8 +10,14 @@ //! Experimental extensions to `std` for Unix platforms. //! -//! For now, this module is limited to extracting file descriptors, -//! but its functionality will grow over time. +//! Provides access to platform-level information on Unix platforms, and +//! exposes Unix-specific functions that would otherwise be inappropriate as +//! part of the core `std` library. +//! +//! It exposes more ways to deal with platform-specific strings (`OsStr`, +//! `OsString`), allows to set permissions more granularly, extract low-level +//! file descriptors from files and sockets, and has platform-specific helpers +//! for spawning processes. //! //! # Examples //! -- 2.44.0