[Python-Dev] HAVE_FSTAT?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 01:09:19 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 May 2013 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Guido van Rossum" <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Fake values would probably cause hard to debug problems. It's a long standing Python tradition not to offer low level APIs that the platform doesn't have.
> >
> > I meant the platform, not Python.
> 
> For CPython derivatives like PyMite, it can help to get things to compile.

It's not a CPython derivative.

Regards

Antoine.


> 
> Perhaps rather than dropping it, we can just replace all the complex
> fallback code with code that triggers 'RuntimeError("Operation
> requires fstat, which is not available on this platform")'.
> 
> Derivatives that support fstat-free platforms will have a clear place
> to put their custom code, but we get the simpler assumption of fstat
> always being available for the code paths we care about (and can
> reasonably test).
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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