On Nov 26, 11:07 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alex23 wrote: > > I'm pretty certain it was present under Windows XP as well. > > Since these two are the exact same version I presume O_DIRECTORY is not > meaningful on Windows. Anyway, when I try to use O_RDONLY on Vista I get > "Permission denied":
Sorry, my bad. I got the exact same "Permission denied" response when I first tried this under XP, so I shelled to a linux box and tested there...then promptly forgot all about it. In my defence, it was pretty late at night when I did so :) In fact, I can't even find a reference to O_DIRECTORY in the manual at all... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list