diff options
| author | Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2019-05-29 19:57:07 (GMT) |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> | 2019-05-29 19:57:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 43fdbd2729cb7cdbb5afb5d16352f6604859e564 (patch) | |
| tree | 88cddedd14a456ffef515fa70718b1cb5ec33b31 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 0c2f9305640f7655ba0cd5f478948b2763b376b3 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-43fdbd2729cb7cdbb5afb5d16352f6604859e564.zip cpython-43fdbd2729cb7cdbb5afb5d16352f6604859e564.tar.gz cpython-43fdbd2729cb7cdbb5afb5d16352f6604859e564.tar.bz2 | |
bpo-26836: Add os.memfd_create() (#13567)
* bpo-26836: Add os.memfd_create()
* Use the glibc wrapper for memfd_create()
Co-Authored-By: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
* Fix deletions caused by autoreconf.
* Use MFD_CLOEXEC as the default value for *flags*.
* Add memset_s to configure.ac.
* Revert memset_s changes.
* Apply the requested changes.
* Tweak the docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/whatsnew')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index f704b47..b4a8030 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -486,6 +486,10 @@ Added new function :func:`~os.add_dll_directory` on Windows for providing additional search paths for native dependencies when importing extension modules or loading DLLs using :mod:`ctypes`. +A new :func:`os.memfd_create` function was added to wrap the +``memfd_create()`` syscall. +(Contributed by Zackery Spytz and Christian Heimes in :issue:`26836`.) + os.path ------- |