On Nov 26, 8:56 pm, Cong Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I checked my Python 2.5 install on Linux and there's > the > O_DIRECTORY flag. However this is not mentioned anywhere in the Library > Reference.
Yes, I just noticed that myself. > O_DIRECTORY > If pathname is not a directory, cause the open to fail. This > flag is Linux-specific, and was added in kernel version 2.1.126, Well, that certainly explains it's absence :) > Note the "should not be used outside of the implementation of opendir(3)" > part. > Does that mean using Python's os.open() with the O_DIRECTORY flag is a Bad > Thing? I'm sorry, that's outside of my knowledge. But it seemed to work fine when I tried it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list