Bad documentation (no biscuit!)

[Olivier Dagenais]

There's a reason I couldn't find the constants in MSDN:  they're prefixed
with '_' and the search kept missing them!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vccore/_crt_file_cons
tants.htm

I find these descriptions better than what I just posted, although more are
missing this time, probably because Windows doesn't natively support them?

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> I have found the documentation provided with version 1.5.2 _and_ 2.0 to
have
> a big hole in it!  Specifically, the file is /lib/os-fd-ops.html and the
> problem is the constants/flags used with the os.open function:  it isn't
> obvious what the flags stand for...
>
> After some searching on the net, I found the following descriptions for
the
> flags:  (from a Unix Java package or something)
>
> O_APPEND          Open in append-only mode.
> O_CREAT           Open with creation flag.
> O_EXCL            Open with exclusive access flag.
> O_NDELAY          Open with no-delay flag.
> O_NOCTTY          Open but don't make it the control tty.
> O_NONBLOCK        Open in non-blocking mode flag.
> O_RDONLY          Open for read-only flag.
> O_RDWR            Open for update flag.
> O_SYNC            Open and keep-disk-synchronized flag.
> O_TRUNC           Open and truncate flag.
> O_WRONLY          Open for write-only flag.
>
>
> Can these be added to the documentation, in that sorted order?  (plus an
> elaboration on what a control tty is and what non-blocking or no-delay do
> would be very nice..)  Definitions for O_DSYNC, O_RSYNC and O_BINARY are
> still missing, anybody can fill them in?  (although I have a good hunch as
> to what O_BINARY does...)
>
> am-I-the-only-one-who-isn't-familiar-with-those-flags-ly y'rs
>
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