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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2018-08-22 18:21:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-08-22 18:21:05 (GMT) |
| commit | e7d4b2f205c711d056bea73a0093e2e2b200544b (patch) | |
| tree | 3a442a760dd83416b2141757f4bf546b623b6f36 /Doc/library/mmap.rst | |
| parent | 28853a249b1d0c890b7e9ca345290bb8c1756446 (diff) | |
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bpo-2122: Make mmap.flush() behave same on all platforms (GH-8692)
Previously, its behavior was platform-dependent and there was no error checking
under Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst index ca09a6a..c8ae7a6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst @@ -191,11 +191,13 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length changes to the given range of bytes will be flushed to disk; otherwise, the whole extent of the mapping is flushed. - **(Windows version)** A nonzero value returned indicates success; zero - indicates failure. + ``None`` is returned to indicate success. An exception is raised when the + call failed. - **(Unix version)** A zero value is returned to indicate success. An - exception is raised when the call failed. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + Previously, a nonzero value was returned on success; zero was returned + on error under Windows. A zero value was returned on success; an + exception was raised on error under Unix. .. method:: move(dest, src, count) |