New submission from Lars Wirzenius :
Attached patch adds a few words to the os.stat documentation for the st_blocks
and st_blksize fields to clarify them.
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Lars Wirzenius added the comment:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html says "A
file system-specific preferred I/O block size for this object. In some file
system types, this may vary from file to file.", which says essentially the
same as the Li
Lars Wirzenius added the comment:
Right. So I guess at least the following should be changed (I'll make an actual
patch once there's consensus):
* st_blocks should say that the size of block is often 512 bytes, but that's
not guaranteed, and there's no way to know fo
New submission from Lars Wirzenius:
The maildir format specification
(see http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) is clear that files named with leading
dots should be ignore:
Unless you're writing messages to a maildir, the format of a unique
name is none of your business. A unique nam
