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Revise the documentation for WASI 0.3.0's descriptor::read. #171

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Revise the documentation for WASI 0.3.0's descriptor::read.
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Update wit-0.3.0-draft/types.wit
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Expand Up @@ -297,8 +297,15 @@ interface types {
/// Multiple read, write, and append streams may be active on the same open
/// file and they do not interfere with each other.
///
/// This function returns a future, which will resolve to an error code if
/// reading full contents of the file fails.
/// This function returns a `stream` which provides the data received from the
/// file, and a `future` providing additional error information in case an
/// error is encountered.
///
/// If no error is encountered, `stream.read` on the `stream` will return
/// `read-status::closed` with no `error-context` and the future resolves to
/// the value `ok`. If an error is encountered, `stream.read` on the
/// `stream` returns `read-status::closed` with an `error-context` and the future
/// resolves to `err` with an `error-code`.
///
/// Note: This is similar to `pread` in POSIX.
@since(version = 0.3.0)
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