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- .HS tclvars tcl
- .BS
- '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
- .SH NAME
- tclvars \- Variables used by Tcl
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- The following global variables are created and managed automatically
- by the Tcl library. Except where noted below, these variables should
- normally be treated as read-only by application-specific code and by users.
- .TP
- \fBenv\fR
- .br
- This variable is maintained by Tcl as an array
- whose elements are the environment variables for the process.
- Reading an element will return the value of the corresponding
- environment variable.
- Setting an element of the array will modify the corresponding
- environment variable or create a new one if it doesn't already
- exist.
- Unsetting an element of \fBenv\fR will remove the corresponding
- environment variable.
- Changes to the \fBenv\fR array will affect the environment
- passed to children by commands like \fBexec\fR.
- If the entire \fBenv\fR array is unset then Tcl will stop
- monitoring \fBenv\fR accesses and will not update environment
- variables.
- .TP
- \fBerrorCode\fR
- After an error has occurred, this variable will be set to hold
- additional information about the error in a form that is easy
- to process with programs.
- \fBerrorCode\fR consists of a Tcl list with one or more elements.
- The first element of the list identifies a general class of
- errors, and determines the format of the rest of the list.
- The following formats for \fBerrorCode\fR are used by the
- Tcl core; individual applications may define additional formats.
- .RS
- .TP
- \fBARITH\fI code msg\fR
- .VS
- This format is used when an arithmetic error occurs (e.g. an attempt
- to divide by zero in the \fBexpr\fR command).
- \fICode\fR identifies the precise error and \fImsg\fR provides a
- human-readable description of the error. \fICode\fR will be either
- DIVZERO (for an attempt to divide by zero),
- DOMAIN (if an argument is outside the domain of a function, such as acos(\-3)),
- IOVERFLOW (for integer overflow),
- OVERLFLOW (for a floating-point overflow),
- or UNKNOWN (if the cause of the error cannot be determined).
- .VE
- .TP
- \fBCHILDKILLED\fI pid sigName msg\fR
- This format is used when a child process has been killed because of
- a signal. The second element of \fBerrorCode\fR will be the
- process's identifier (in decimal).
- The third element will be the symbolic name of the signal that caused
- the process to terminate; it will be one of the names from the
- include file signal.h, such as \fBSIGPIPE\fR.
- The fourth element will be a short human-readable message
- describing the signal, such as ``write on pipe with no readers''
- for \fBSIGPIPE\fR.
- .TP
- \fBCHILDSTATUS\fI pid code\fR
- This format is used when a child process has exited with a non-zero
- exit status. The second element of \fBerrorCode\fR will be the
- process's identifier (in decimal) and the third element will be the exit
- code returned by the process (also in decimal).
- .TP
- \fBCHILDSUSP\fI pid sigName msg\fR
- This format is used when a child process has been suspended because
- of a signal.
- The second element of \fBerrorCode\fR will be the process's identifier,
- in decimal.
- The third element will be the symbolic name of the signal that caused
- the process to suspend; this will be one of the names from the
- include file signal.h, such as \fBSIGTTIN\fR.
- The fourth element will be a short human-readable message
- describing the signal, such as ``background tty read''
- for \fBSIGTTIN\fR.
- .TP
- \fBNONE\fR
- .br
- This format is used for errors where no additional information is
- available for an error besides the message returned with the
- error. In these cases \fBerrorCode\fR will consist of a list
- containing a single element whose contents are \fBNONE\fR.
- .TP
- \fBPOSIX \fIerrName msg\fR
- .VS
- If the first element of \fBerrorCode\fR is \fBPOSIX\fR, then
- the error occurred during a POSIX kernel call.
- .VE
- The second element of the list will contain the symbolic name
- of the error that occurred, such as \fBENOENT\fR; this will
- be one of the values defined in the include file errno.h.
- The third element of the list will be a human-readable
- message corresponding to \fIerrName\fR, such as
- ``no such file or directory'' for the \fBENOENT\fR case.
- .PP
- To set \fBerrorCode\fR, applications should use library
- procedures such as \fBTcl_SetErrorCode\fR and
- .VS
- \fBTcl_PosixError\fR,
- .VE
- or they may invoke the \fBerror\fR command.
- If one of these methods hasn't been used, then the Tcl
- interpreter will reset the variable to \fBNONE\fR after
- the next error.
- .RE
- .TP
- \fBerrorInfo\fR
- After an error has occurred, this string will contain one or more lines
- identifying the Tcl commands and procedures that were being executed
- when the most recent error occurred.
- Its contents take the form of a stack trace showing the various
- nested Tcl commands that had been invoked at the time of the error.
- .TP
- \fBtcl_precision\fR
- .VS
- If this variable is set, it must contain a decimal number giving the
- number of significant digits to include when converting floating-point
- values to strings.
- If this variable is not set then 6 digits are included.
- 17 digits is ``perfect'' for IEEE floating-point in that it allows
- double-precision values to be converted to strings and back to
- binary with no loss of precision.
- .VE
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- arithmetic, error, environment, POSIX, precision, subprocess, variables
-