From 8df4ec70d3b5dacea4e6ee011c3d757261ef1969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:48:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: os.open O_PATH and O_TMPFILE. --- Doc/library/os.rst | 5 +++-- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index b98ad8057b9..7ae303bc07d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -940,8 +940,9 @@ or `the MSDN `_ on Window the C library. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 - Add :data:`O_TMPFILE` constant. It's only available on Linux Kernel 3.11 - or newer. + Add :data:`O_PATH` on systems that support it. + Add :data:`O_TMPFILE`, only available on Linux Kernel 3.11 + or newer. .. function:: openpty() diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 34607b87f47..e5e720eca68 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1129,10 +1129,11 @@ Windows). (Contributed by Brian Curtin in :issue:`11939`.) :func:`os.path.ismount` now recognizes volumes mounted below a drive root on Windows. (Contributed by Tim Golden in :issue:`9035`.) -:func:`os.open` supports a new flag, :data:`~os.O_TMPFILE` (unnamed temporary -file) on platforms that provide it (as of 3.4.0 release, that means Linux -systems with a kernel version of 3.11 or newer that have uapi headers). -(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`18673`.) +:func:`os.open` supports two new flags on platforms that provide them, +:data:`~os.O_TMPFILE` (unnamed temporary file, as of 3.4.0 release available +only on Linux systems with a kernel version of 3.11 or newer that have uapi +headers), and :data:`~os.O_PATH` (un-opened file descriptor). (Contributed by +Christian Heimes in :issue:`18673` and Benjamin Peterson, respectively.) pdb