From: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:52:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: net/http: clarify semantics of File methods
X-Git-Tag: go1.3beta1~994
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c4303397756b2217971465c6b2f54bbefeed37a;p=gostls13.git

net/http: clarify semantics of File methods

There were no docs explaining the meaning of Readdir's count
argument, for instance. Clarify that these mean the same as
the methods on *os.File.

R=golang-codereviews, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/51630043
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diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/fs.go b/src/pkg/net/http/fs.go
index 8b32ca1d0e..042e6da113 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/http/fs.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/http/fs.go
@@ -52,12 +52,14 @@ type FileSystem interface {
 
 // A File is returned by a FileSystem's Open method and can be
 // served by the FileServer implementation.
+//
+// The methods should behave the same as those on an *os.File.
 type File interface {
-	Close() error
-	Stat() (os.FileInfo, error)
+	io.Closer
+	io.Reader
 	Readdir(count int) ([]os.FileInfo, error)
-	Read([]byte) (int, error)
 	Seek(offset int64, whence int) (int64, error)
+	Stat() (os.FileInfo, error)
 }
 
 func dirList(w ResponseWriter, f File) {