[Python-Dev] HAVE_FSTAT?

Sun May 19 17:40:40 CEST 2013

On 2013年5月20日 01:09:19 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On 2013年5月19日 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Guido van Rossum" <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Fake values would probably cause hard to debug problems. It's a long standing Python tradition not to offer low level APIs that the platform doesn't have.
> >
> > I meant the platform, not Python.
>> For CPython derivatives like PyMite, it can help to get things to compile.

It's not a CPython derivative.
Regards
Antoine.
>> Perhaps rather than dropping it, we can just replace all the complex
> fallback code with code that triggers 'RuntimeError("Operation
> requires fstat, which is not available on this platform")'.
>> Derivatives that support fstat-free platforms will have a clear place
> to put their custom code, but we get the simpler assumption of fstat
> always being available for the code paths we care about (and can
> reasonably test).
>> Cheers,
> Nick.
>> --
> Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia