Low level IO abstraction. A typical implementation is unix. This abstraction is meant to be dead simple. Not a lot of documentation is required.
It is not resistant to race condictions. There should not be concurrent modifications of the files.
These functions are essentially invoking the underlying functions from Unix directly; there is no buffering for example.
Errors
An abstract error type that contains the IO-backend specific errors. (e.g. Unix.error)
type create_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `File_exists of string
]type open_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `No_such_file_or_directory of string| `Not_a_file
]type read_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `Read_out_of_bounds| `Closed| `Invalid_argument
]type write_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `Ro_not_allowed| `Closed
]type close_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `Double_close
]type mkdir_error = [ | `Io_misc of misc_error| `File_exists of string| `No_such_file_or_directory of string| `Invalid_parent_directory
]Safe Functions
None of the functions in this section raise exceptions. They may however perform effects that are always continued.
Life Cycle
Write Functions
write_string t ~off s writes s at offset in t.
fsync t persists to the file system the effects of previous create or write.
val move_file :
src:string ->
dst:string ->
(unit, [> `Sys_error of string ]) resultval copy_file :
src:string ->
dst:string ->
(unit, [> `Sys_error of string ]) resultval unlink : string -> (unit, [> `Sys_error of string ]) resultval unlink_dont_wait : on_exn:(exn -> unit) -> string -> unitunlink_dont_wait file attempts to unlink the named file but doesn't wait for the completion of the unlink operation.
If unlink raises an exception it is passed to on_exn.
Read Functions
read_to_string t ~off ~len are the len bytes of t at off.
read_to_string t is the contents full contents of the file.
The individual pages are not guaranteed to be read atomically.
read_size t is the number of bytes of the file handled by t.
This function is expensive in the unix implementation because it performs syscalls.
val classify_path :
string ->
[> `File | `Directory | `No_such_file_or_directory | `Other ]MISC.
Unsafe Functions
These functions are equivalents to exising safe ones, but using exceptions instead of the result monad for performances reasons.
read_exn t ~off ~len b reads the len bytes of t at off to b.
Raises Errors.Pack_error and Errors.RO_not_allowed.
Also raises backend-specific exceptions (e.g. Unix.Unix_error for the unix backend).
write_exn t ~off ~len b writes the first len bytes pf b to t at offset off.
Raises Errors.Pack_error and Errors.RO_not_allowed.
Also raises backend-specific exceptions (e.g. Unix.Unix_error for the unix backend).