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116 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 5c7b2487cd - explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
Just van Rossum 96b1c903f5 Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
  will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
  argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
  default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
  os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
  can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
  the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.

This checkin also fixes bug #696261, which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 117910dc44 Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
into the relevant path modules.  See patch #686397.
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 002a5de202 extsep description:
- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 47e46e2347 add missing description of os.extsep 2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2b09bc4d57 Fix SF bug #675259, os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks.  Add a note.

Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b37364fc8 Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin() 2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b6604b3e69 Document EX_OK and friends. 2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9f5b07dd92 SF bug #592859: os.chmod is underdocumented
Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6d23b170cf Fix a typo 2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 33e94437ca Document killpg. 2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 438b534ad0 Patch #657889: Implement posix.getloadavg. 2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d10f985e Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock" 2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b9ed2f346 Clarified documentation of tempnam().
Closes SF bug #635656.
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Fred Drake b5f41dedeb Minor markup adjustments. 2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller 5b470e0a3a Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f607bdaa77 Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 36a4d8c20e Remove mentionings of DOS. 2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbe3f76270 Patch #569139: Implementation of major, minor and makedev. 2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a844f2d165 Document patch #594001. 2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a32c994129 Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test. 2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3cfdc3402e Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695. 2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 403e351dfc Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it. 2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c22e85ae7 Attempt to clarify removedirs().
Based on SF bug #574773.
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea01d415f Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637.
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f59124693 Clarified documentation for os.access().
Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618.
2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cc5c6947a6 Add "version added" for getpgid 2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db9198a8b5 SF bug 563750 (Alex Martelli): posix_tmpfile():
The file returned by tmpfile() has mode w+b, so use that in the call
to PyFile_FromFile().

Bugfix candidate.
2002-06-10 19:23:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 1f89e2abcc Fix markup error that suppressed space.
Closes SF bug #554257.  Not relevant to older releases.
2002-05-10 12:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake a65375c3e3 Explain what os.read() returns at end of file.
This closes SF bug #550409.  Applying to release21-maint & release22-maint.
2002-05-01 03:31:42 +00:00
Fred Drake d3e6678713 Slightly expand and clarify the differences between getegid(), getgid(),
getpgrp(), and setpgid().
This closes SF bug #547939.
2002-04-26 20:59:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 106c1a0e7a WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New.
isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
    bools instead of ints.
2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake e19a5bcc7b Be consistent in presenting the signatures. 2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 154985587b Add docs for os.fchdir(). 2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dfb7a81c1 Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows.
Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582.
2002-04-01 23:30:47 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Tim Peters c48a3ca161 Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows.
NOTE:  this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms.  I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't.  If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7983113c Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description.
This closes SF bug #495609.
2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c8e871530 Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the
actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191.
2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
Tim Peters b404145936 s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. 2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 6995bb61b6 Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs
result object changes.
2001-11-29 20:48:44 +00:00
Fred Drake c37b65ee10 Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group.  These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake db7287c0f5 Straighten out the exec*() function descriptions a bit, and clarify a few
points in the spawn*() description.
2001-10-18 18:58:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c405133fce Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments. 2001-10-18 14:07:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 61c5edf6fc Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. 2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 938a8d723c Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*()
functions to include information about how they affect the operation of
those functions when used as the "mode" parameter.
This closes SF bug #468384.

Added warnings to the os.tempnam() and os.tmpnam() functions regarding their
security problem.  These warning mirror the warnings added to the runtime
by Skip Montanaro.
2001-10-09 18:07:04 +00:00