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| author | Steve Bennett <steveb@workware.net.au> | 2014-01-05 08:58:45 +1000 |
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| committer | Steve Bennett <steveb@workware.net.au> | 2014-01-15 07:46:32 +1000 |
| commit | 8b500353d19b52097d7804909bf49f07ae16d15d (patch) | |
| tree | 43b20cd79abe8480ff4b26c53f12c9a3d08a15fb | |
| parent | afe074ccf68410addadb5e30d928b05fc02fdff6 (diff) | |
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doc: improve documentation for bgerror
Signed-off-by: Steve Bennett <steveb@workware.net.au>
| -rw-r--r-- | jim_tcl.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/jim_tcl.txt b/jim_tcl.txt index 5d511e5..0e1be5d 100644 --- a/jim_tcl.txt +++ b/jim_tcl.txt @@ -4558,13 +4558,15 @@ Time-based execution is also available via the eventloop API. Scripts are executed at the global scope. If an error occurs during a handler script, an attempt is made to call (the user-defined command) `bgerror` with the details of the error. -If the `bgerror` commands does not exist, it is printed to stderr instead. +If the `bgerror` command does not exist, the error message details are printed to stderr instead. If a file event handler script generates an error, the handler is automatically removed to prevent infinite errors. (A time event handler is always removed after execution). -+*bgerror* 'error'+:: - Called when an event handler script generates an error. ++*bgerror* 'msg'+:: + Called when an event handler script generates an error. Note that the normal command resolution + rules are used for bgerror. First the name is resolved in the current namespace, then in the + global scope. socket ~~~~~~ |