Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: >> Apparently, contributor have the illusion that the values they put >> into the file are somehow standardized, when they are actually not. > > Are there actual bugs with that or is it merely a theoretical concern?
Neither, nor (i.e. it's in the middle). I'm not aware of an actual problem, but I very much doubt that SF_SNAPSHOT really has the same meaning on all systems (IOW, chances are high that some system has allocated the same bit to mean something different). Looking in more detail: for the S_IFMT flags, OSX/Darwin/FreeBSD defines 0xe000 as S_IFWHT (whiteout), but Solaris defines it as S_IFPORT (event port). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11016> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
