strange note in fcntl docs

[John Lenton]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:54:46PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     John> And, even if they were, the note is *still* wrong and misleading:
>     John> fcntl is available on Windows, and os.open's flags won't be.
> 
> Does this read better?
> 
> [snip]

yes, and it takes me back to considering why file objects don't have
methods suck as lock, stat and mmap where those calls are available
through other mechanisms...

-- 
John Lenton (john at grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
Yo mando a mi gato y mi gato manda a su rabo. 
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