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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > "posixcap" sounds ok to me. Bike-sheddingly, it bothers me that these functions are actually *not* defined by POSIX, but have been withdrawn before becoming standard. So I'd rather call it linuxcap. Using _linuxcap, and exposing them from os sounds fine to m

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: Another possibility is to make it a private module _posixcapabilities, which would be used in os module: try: from _posixcapabilities import * except ImportError: pass -- ___ Python tra

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Ross Lagerwall added the comment: > I would say either posixcap or capabitilies. The problem with capabilities is that it's easy to misspell, as I did :-) -- ___ Python tracker _

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Ross Lagerwall added the comment: > > I think it would be better if they are added to a separate module > Can you propose a name for the module? I would say either posixcap or capabitilies. -- ___ Python tracker

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > The development headers for these are not installed by default on > some distributions. This is not an issue at all - that's what autoconf is for. > Adding this to the posix module would enforce linking with lcap and > lattr always. That's a more serious p

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: posix module has many optional functions, which are available only on some systems. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

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Ross Lagerwall added the comment: Adding this to the posix module would enforce linking with lcap and lattr always. The development headers for these are not installed by default on some distributions. I think it would be better if they are added to a separate module (especially since all th

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Mark Lawrence added the comment: Matt Kern has put a lot of work into the attached patches from what I can see. Common courtesy suggests that someone make an effort to review his work which now can only go into 3.2. I would take it on myself but know nothing about POSIX and still find the P

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Matt Kern added the comment: Ping. Anything I can do? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: ht

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Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Unfortunately, these changes missed the beta for 2.6, so it must be delayed until 2.7. -- versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Updated patch with numerous changes, which (hopefully) address the issues you raised. Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10671/patch-20080620-1232.diff ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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