New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>: The stat implementation on osx 10.5 or later can provide additional fields beyond the tradional unix ones (such as "st_birthtimespec"). Those are by default only available when using 'stat64' instead of the regular stat, but that can be changed using a preprocessor define.
The additional fields are not yet present in the python wrapper (posix.stat) and are apparently useful (according to a mail exchange on the python-nl mailinglist). It should be possible to add the additional fields in the struct-view of the statresults object without affecting existing code and other platforms. Care should be taken to still enabling building a binary on 10.5 that works on 10.4 (where the stat64 function is not present). ---------- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: Extension Modules, Macintosh messages: 99924 nosy: ronaldoussoren severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: os.stat on osx 10.5 or later doesn't expose all fields in struct stat type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8001> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
