[Python-Dev] HAVE_FSTAT?

[Charles-François Natali]

2013/5/17 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at 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