[issue678250] test_mmap failling on AIX

Tue Sep 21 23:57:53 CEST 2010

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

Please ensure tha I'm taken off of the email list as I've been banned from 
contributing to Python by Raymond Hettinger

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From: Martin v. LÃ¶wis <report at bugs.python.org>
To: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 16:28:06
Subject: [issue678250] test_mmap failling on AIX

Martin v. LÃ¶wis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Should flush be modified to do nothing in this case or should the unit test be 
>updated?

Tim is suggesting that flush should indeed become a noop. Since nobody
else speaking in favor of it being an error, I guess this is the way to
go: flush, on an ACCESS_COPY file, does nothing, and the test is fine
as it stands.

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