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authorCharles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr>2012-02-05 14:15:38 (GMT)
committerCharles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr>2012-02-05 14:15:38 (GMT)
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Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
descriptors.
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(Patch submitted by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10784`.)
+* The :mod:`os` module has a new :func:`~os.fwalk` function similar to
+ :func:`~os.walk` except that it also yields file descriptors referring to the
+ directories visited. This is especially useful to avoid symlink races.
+
* "at" functions (:issue:`4761`):
* :func:`~os.faccessat`