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Author	vstinner
Recipients	lemburg, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2011-05-23.12:25:25
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Message-id	<1306153526.98.0.695363771693.issue12158@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Sometimes, we need to know the version of the Linux kernel. Recent examples: test if SOCK_CLOEXEC or O_CLOEXEC are supported by the kernel or not. Linux < 2.6.23 silently ignores O_CLOEXEC flag of open(). linux_version() is already implemented in test_socket, but it looks like test_posix does also need it. Attached patch adds platform.linux_version(). It returns (a, b, c) (integers) or None (if not Linux). It raises an error if the version string cannot be parsed.

Sometimes, we need to know the version of the Linux kernel. Recent examples: test if SOCK_CLOEXEC or O_CLOEXEC are supported by the kernel or not. Linux < 2.6.23 *silently* ignores O_CLOEXEC flag of open().

linux_version() is already implemented in test_socket, but it looks like test_posix does also need it.

Attached patch adds platform.linux_version(). It returns (a, b, c) (integers) or None (if not Linux).

It raises an error if the version string cannot be parsed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-05-23 12:25:27	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, pitrou, neologix
2011-05-23 12:25:26	vstinner	set	messageid: <1306153526.98.0.695363771693.issue12158@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2011-05-23 12:25:26	vstinner	create