Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I do know, but when you are working inside a zone, I am not sure you > can count of that file being always present. Syslog even could be > disabled or not available inside a zone.
Then you can just skip the test. > I am thinking about how to manage OS's with no support for doors. > Instead of conditionally compile the new STAT, Lib/stat.py is a pure Python module. There is no compilation to do. You just have to add the pure Python version of the C macro. For the record, 0xd000 is (stat.S_IFSOCK + stat.S_IFIFO). > I would rather have the function always available, but returning FALSE > when the OS doesn't support doors. Right. > But what happen if you mount a Solaris filesystem in a nonsolaris > machine?. Let say, a Solaris ZFS filesystem with doors, under > linux/*bsd + ZFS?. I guess S_ISDOOR would return True. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
