On 9/15/21, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a somewhat off-topic note, but dir_fd arguments are only > supported on Unix, and the functionality only appears to be present at > the NT Kernel level on Windows, not in the Windows API.
Handle-relative paths are supported by all NT system calls that access object paths, but NT doesn't support ".." components. Normal user-mode programs can make system calls directly (e.g. call NtCreateFile instead of CreateFile), but even if Python bypassed the Windows API to support dir_fd, the lack of support for ".." components in relative paths would be an annoying inconsistency with POSIX dir_fd support. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/QO253Y4XOMJZC7YQQRZPYME353M7WDDA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
