2013/5/17 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > Hello, > > Some pieces of code are still guarded by: > #ifdef HAVE_FSTAT > ... > #endif > > I would expect all systems to have fstat() these days. It's pretty > basic POSIX, and even Windows has had it for ages. Shouldn't we simply > make those code blocks unconditional? It would avoid having to maintain > unused fallback paths.
I was sure I'd seen a post/bug report about this: http://bugs.python.org/issue12082 The OP was trying to build Python on an embedded platform without fstat(). cf _______________________________________________ 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