From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:03:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add doc for access() and ttyname().  Patch by Sean Reifschneider.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b2~431
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74429eacb54dd388086d52fba21d68751ce3ee51;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add doc for access() and ttyname().  Patch by Sean Reifschneider.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
index 27f8197cd051..43d63e5cf3ae 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ When exceptions are strings, the string for the exception is
 
 It defines the following functions and constants:
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{access}{path, mode}
+Check read/write/execute permissions for this process or extance of file
+\var{path}.  Return \code{1} if access is granted, \code{0} if not.
+See the \UNIX{} manual for the semantics.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{chdir}{path}
 Change the current working directory to \var{path}.
 \end{funcdesc}
@@ -321,6 +327,12 @@ actually preferable to assign to items of \code{os.environ}.
 Return the error message corresponding to the error code in \var{code}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{ttyname}{fd}
+Return a string which specifies the terminal device associated with
+file-descriptor \var{fd}.  If \var{fd} is not associated with a terminal
+device, an exception is raised.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{read}{fd, n}
 Read at most \var{n} bytes from file descriptor \var{fd}.
 Return a string containing the bytes read.