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Diffstat (limited to 'library/std/src/io/error.rs')
| -rw-r--r-- | library/std/src/io/error.rs | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/library/std/src/io/error.rs b/library/std/src/io/error.rs index 7f07e4fdd..34c0ce9dc 100644 --- a/library/std/src/io/error.rs +++ b/library/std/src/io/error.rs @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ mod repr_unpacked; #[cfg(not(target_pointer_width = "64"))] use repr_unpacked::Repr; -use crate::convert::From; use crate::error; use crate::fmt; use crate::result; @@ -370,7 +369,7 @@ pub enum ErrorKind { // "Unusual" error kinds which do not correspond simply to (sets // of) OS error codes, should be added just above this comment. - // `Other` and `Uncategorised` should remain at the end: + // `Other` and `Uncategorized` should remain at the end: // /// A custom error that does not fall under any other I/O error kind. /// @@ -882,6 +881,13 @@ impl Error { /// Returns the corresponding [`ErrorKind`] for this error. /// + /// This may be a value set by Rust code constructing custom `io::Error`s, + /// or if this `io::Error` was sourced from the operating system, + /// it will be a value inferred from the system's error encoding. + /// See [`last_os_error`] for more details. + /// + /// [`last_os_error`]: Error::last_os_error + /// /// # Examples /// /// ``` @@ -892,7 +898,8 @@ impl Error { /// } /// /// fn main() { - /// // Will print "Uncategorized". + /// // As no error has (visibly) occurred, this may print anything! + /// // It likely prints a placeholder for unidentified (non-)errors. /// print_error(Error::last_os_error()); /// // Will print "AddrInUse". /// print_error(Error::new(ErrorKind::AddrInUse, "oh no!")); |