New submission from Yuval Weinbaum: In fcntl module, the documentation states the following regarding the mutate_flag in ioctl method:
*** If it is false, the buffer’s mutability is ignored and behaviour is as for a read-only buffer, except that the 1024 byte limit mentioned above is avoided – so long as the buffer you pass is as least as long as what the operating system wants to put there, things should work. *** However, looking at the code (fcntlmodule.c) it seems that the 1024 bytes limitation is avoided when the mutate_flag is set to True (the opposite of what is stated in the doc). ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 178732 nosy: Yuval.Weinbaum, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: ioctl mutate_flag behavior in regard to the buffer size limit versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16834> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
