Well my Linux man page says that the only flags supported are O_APPEND, O_ASYNC, O_DIRECT, O_NOATIME, and O_NONBLOCK; and all of those are typically off -- so I'm not sure that it's a mistake or need correcting. These APIs should only be used by people who know what they're doing anyways; the examples are meant to briefly show the call format.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Mike Coleman <tutu...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the doc page for the fcntl module, the example below is given. > This seems like an error, or at least very misleading, as the normal > usage is to get the flags (F_GETFL), set or unset the bits you want to > change, then set the flags (F_SETFL). A reader might think that the > example below merely sets O_NDELAY, but it also stomps all of the > other bits to zero. > > If someone can confirm my thinking, this ought to be changed. > > import struct, fcntl, os > > f = open(...) > rv = fcntl.fcntl(f, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NDELAY) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com