On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > I'd like to echo this sentiment. This is not about providing a 'safe' > wrapper to hide some powerful feature of these APIs: the POSIX aio_* > functions are really completely useless. > To quote the relevant standard > <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/aio.h.html>: > > APPLICATION USAGE > None. > RATIONALE > None. > FUTURE DIRECTIONS > None.
No comment on the rest of your claim, but this is a silly argument. The standard says the same thing about at least fcntl.h, signal.h, pthread.h, and ucontext.h, which clearly are useful. Jeffrey _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
