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102 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Martin v. Löwis 244edc8985 Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267. 2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
Fred Drake bbf7a407e8 Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #465447.
2001-09-28 16:14:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 098d7fae39 Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512.
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 739282da83 Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
whole family instead of just two.


This closes SF bug #451630.
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a2adcf812 Typo: Added missing "if".
This is part of SF patch #442788.
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake efaef13c81 Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), and
os.tmpnam().
2001-07-17 20:39:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 8ee679f0ce Minor changes to match the style guide. 2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 907e76b620 Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b9bc20e66 Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of
functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.

Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
2001-06-11 18:25:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 046f4d810d Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added
a reference to these functions and popen() from the "Process Management"
section.

Based on a suggestion from comp.lang.python.
2001-06-11 15:21:48 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b9d973dac5 is -> if in rename description 2001-06-04 15:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 81e142b907 Document os.getenv().
This closes SF bug #429059.
2001-05-31 20:27:46 +00:00
Fred Drake dc9e7e42c8 readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either
absolute or relative.

remove(), rename() descriptions:  Give more information about the cross-
    platform behavior of these functions, so single-platform developers
    can be aware of the potential issues when writing portable code.

This closes SF patch #426598.
2001-05-29 18:13:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a152630ca Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged
annotation.
2000-10-19 05:33:46 +00:00