[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Committed to 3.2 in rev. 84188; thanks, Adam! -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Here's a patch that updates the 2.7 docs. Adam, have you submitted a contributor agreement (http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/)? -- nosy: +akuchling Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16318/posix-statvfs-flag-docs.txt _

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

Adam Jackson added the comment: None of the other symbolic constants in 'posix' have documentation. Perhaps they should, but the patch is at least doing the same as what's already done. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

Georg Brandl added the comment: Okay. Would it then make sense to migrate those constants in the stat module to posix, and deprecate the former? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I think having a stat module is a mistake in the first place. It's primary purpose (giving symbolic names to fields in a stat result) is out-of-date, now that we have named tuples. It's secondary purpose (collecting symbolic constants and macros around them)

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

Georg Brandl added the comment: IMO these symbols should go to the "stat" module, not the "posix" module. However, that module is Python, so the values would need to be hardcoded. Do you know whether they are constant on all relevant systems? -- assignee: -> loewis nosy: +georg.bra

[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

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[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

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[issue7647] Add statvfs flags to the posix module

New submission from Adam Jackson : Though the statvfs call exists in the posix module, the posix-defined values for the f_flag field are not. This makes it hard to know whether a filesystem is readonly without also knowing the value for ST_READONLY on the machine you're running on. Attached