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os: mention ErrInvalid for nil receivers #12391

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dominikh opened this issue Aug 28, 2015 · 1 comment
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os: mention ErrInvalid for nil receivers #12391

dominikh opened this issue Aug 28, 2015 · 1 comment

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Methods on *os.File return ErrInvalid when the receiver is nil. This is, however, not documented anywhere. Usually this would be fine, if it weren't for a lot of documentation on methods saying If there is an error, it will be of type *PathError.

Operating on nil *os.Files is a programming mistake and shouldn't be a common occurence, so it shouldn't complicate all of the documentation. However, a note in the package-level documentation could be an easy fix for a small inaccuracy in the rest of the documentation.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added this to the Go1.6 milestone Aug 28, 2015
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CL https://golang.org/cl/16873 mentions this issue.

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