[PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/dio reference.xml From: Philip Olson (philip <email protected>)
Date: 11/18/02

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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