Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

I think having a stat module is a mistake in the first place. It's primary 
purpose (giving symbolic names to fields in a stat result) is out-of-date, now 
that we have named tuples. It's secondary purpose (collecting symbolic 
constants and macros around them) is flawed, as there is no guarantee that they 
are fixed across systems (unless we explicitly map the values correspondingly.

So I support addition of the constants to the posix module. Not sure whether 
documentation is lacking in the patch (i.e. whether they ought to be 
documented).

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