Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > A third idea is to find a way to override the low-level open() > function (the one that returns a fd).
Why not. It would e.g. allow to use CreateFile under Windows (the hg guys do this in order to change the "sharing" mode to something more laxist). > openat() seems to exist only on Linux, so I'm -1 on adding new > parameters to support this function only. openat() is POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12797> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com