Martin Panter added the comment: FYI Martin Panter and vadmium are both me :)
I’m not a big fan or expert on configure.ac and Autoconf, but I guess in this case it is the simplest solution. Maybe look at some of the existing AC_CHECK_DECL and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE invocations. I guess you need to see if __NR_copy_file_range is available. In the earlier patches, there were four space characters at the start of the file. In the 2016-04-27 09:16 patch, there is a completely empty line (after +#endif /* HAVE_COPY_FILE_RANGE */), which may also be interfering. FWIW, I don’t think you have to have the posix_ prefix on your function if you don’t want it. It is a static function, so the naming is fairly unrestricted. About changing copyfileobj(), here are some test cases which may help explain the compatibility problems: # Transcoding a file to a different character encoding with open("input.txt", "rt", encoding="latin-1") as input, \ open("utf8.txt", "wt", encoding="utf-8") as output: shutil.copyfileobj(input, output) # Input is a BufferedReader and may hold extra buffered data with open("data", "rb") as input, open("output", "wb") as output: header = input.read(100) # Actually reads more bytes from OS process_header(header) copyfileobj(input, output) # Copy starting from offset 100 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26826> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com