From: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:14:26 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: doc: mention os/exec StdinPipe change in Go 1.2 doc
X-Git-Tag: go1.2rc2~143
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d851c6d478fc68d88ac192ad9499726c9e393c8f;p=gostls13.git

doc: mention os/exec StdinPipe change in Go 1.2 doc

Fixes #6439.

R=r, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13478045
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diff --git a/doc/go1.2.html b/doc/go1.2.html
index fcbf5e22f5..2dc90f8368 100644
--- a/doc/go1.2.html
+++ b/doc/go1.2.html
@@ -823,6 +823,17 @@ are absorbed by the
 and the client receives an empty body as required by the HTTP specification.
 </li>
 
+<li>
+The <a href="/pkg/os/exec/"><code>os/exec</code></a> package's 
+<a href="/pkg/os/exec/#Cmd.StdinPipe"><code>Cmd.StdinPipe</code></a> method 
+returns an <code>io.WriteCloser</code>, but has changed its concrete
+implementation from <code>*os.File</code> to an unexported type that embeds
+<code>*os.File</code>, and it is now safe to close the returned value.
+Before Go 1.2, there was an unavoidable race that this change fixes.
+Code that needs access to the methods of <code>*os.File</code> can use an
+interface type assertion, such as <code>wc.(interface{ Sync() error })</code>.
+</li>
+
 <li>
 The <a href="/pkg/runtime/"><code>runtime</code></a> package relaxes
 the constraints on finalizer functions in