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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-06-05 10:24:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-06-05 10:24:52 (GMT) |
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bpo-26836: Document os.memfd_create() name parameter (GH-13838)
https://bugs.python.org/issue26836
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 107764b..f0df35e9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -3011,6 +3011,13 @@ features: (or a bitwise ORed combination of them). By default, the new file descriptor is :ref:`non-inheritable <fd_inheritance>`. + The name supplied in *name* is used as a filename and will be displayed as + the target of the corresponding symbolic link in the directory + ``/proc/self/fd/``. The displayed name is always prefixed with ``memfd:`` + and serves only for debugging purposes. Names do not affect the behavior of + the file descriptor, and as such multiple files can have the same name + without any side effects. + .. availability:: Linux 3.17 or newer with glibc 2.27 or newer. .. versionadded:: 3.8 |