Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@googlemail.com> added the comment: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:16:39PM +0000, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > This is the same behavior as fsync on OSX, and OSX also has > a second API that provides stronger guarantees. > With your patch it is no longer possible to call the C function > fsync on OSX, even though it is good enough for a lot of use > cases. As os.fcntl already supports F_FULLSYNC I see no good > reason to change the implementation of os.fsync on OSX.
I don't see it that way for multiple reasons. One of it is that Python states that it "is a beginner language", and the sentence i've quoted a part of in my last message is very beginner friendly. Now i don't think you can require that much further knowledge from a beginner at all than what is described in that very sentence. (Just think of an african kid with a sponsored laptop and possibly 10 minutes internet access per day which tries hard to rise up and puts *galaxies of trust* in what it reads in os.rst, maybe because it is the only documentation he has available!) Then Python is a high-level language. It's true that there are many shallow wrappers around lower-level functions, but still. It is cross-platform. Just have a look into a, say, file I/O implementation of a C library/program which aims to be portable. If all that #if#endif would be necessary in a high-level language, then why don't write a Makefile and compile that thing? Not that much more work, then - many thanks to the GCC people! You know - i wouldn't talk about subtleties of filesystems here. And then - at least half a dozen of programmers with altogether maybe many decades of experience, full-time internet access (talking about you :) required two months to get around the Apple bug. A simple "man 2 fsync" would have sufficed for a starter! And how ridiculous - i've spend the free time of four days :-( It's a shame, it's a bug, i wouldn't it let pass through to users. Apple? No, i'm looking forward to return to a private BSD/Linux X/ahwm/aterm/vim laptop. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11877> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
