[Python-checkins] r45573 - in python/trunk: Doc/lib/libos.tex Lib/test/test_posix.py Modules/posixmodule.c

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 20 10:06:50 CEST 2006


Neal Norwitz wrote:
> It's probably safer to over allocate.  So I'm not sure what is the
> best thing to do.  I didn't find one usage when searching just man
> pages.  I wonder if anyone really uses this API?

Clearly not, or else we would have heard about it.

However, over time, systems will find more interesting uses for it,
and users will some day stop hard-coding things based on uname output,
and instead start using confstr where available.

Regards,
Martin


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