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Author	pitrou
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, nadeem.vawda, ned.deily, neologix, pitrou, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date	2011-08-20.23:42:08
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In-reply-to	<1313883269.59.0.857470155989.issue12797@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> I believe openat is new to POSIX (mandatory as of POSIX 2008). For > example, it's not currently in OS X and apparently was first added to > FreeBSD in 8.0. So it would have to be checked by configure and > documented as platform-dependent. We already have os.openat: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.openat This request is to make it easier to use with the high-level IO classes.

> I believe openat is new to POSIX (mandatory as of POSIX 2008).  For
> example, it's not currently in OS X and apparently was first added to
> FreeBSD in 8.0.  So it would have to be checked by configure and
> documented as platform-dependent.

We already have os.openat:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.openat

This request is to make it easier to use with the high-level IO classes.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-20 23:42:08	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, amaury.forgeotdarc, vstinner, nadeem.vawda, ned.deily, neologix, rosslagerwall
2011-08-20 23:42:08	pitrou	link	issue12797 messages
2011-08-20 23:42:08	pitrou	create