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diff --git a/doc/FileSystem.3 b/doc/FileSystem.3 index 6f9a4e8..e6f750d 100644 --- a/doc/FileSystem.3 +++ b/doc/FileSystem.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: FileSystem.3,v 1.7 2001/09/28 01:21:53 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: FileSystem.3,v 1.8 2001/09/29 11:09:35 vincentdarley Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_FSCopyFile 3 8.4 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -946,9 +946,19 @@ of the filesystem, so that they can be returned by 'file volumes'. typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSListVolumesProc(void); .CE .PP -The result should be TCL_OK, since there is no way this function can -fail. The function should add the known volumes to the list object -contained in the Tcl interpreter's result. +The result should be a list of volumes added by this filesystem, or +NULL (or an empty list) if no volumes are provided. The result object +is considered to be owned by the filesystem (not by Tcl's core), but +should be given a refCount for Tcl. Tcl will use the contents of the +list and then decrement that refCount. This allows filesystems to +choose whether they actually want to retain a 'master list' of volumes +or not (if not, they generate the list on the fly and pass it to Tcl +with a refCount of 1 and then forget about the list, if yes, then +they simply increment the refCount of their master list and pass it +to Tcl which will copy the contents and then decrememnt the count back +to where it was). +.PP +Therefore, Tcl considers return values from this proc to be read-only. .PP .SH FILEATTRSTRINGSPROC .PP |