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authorChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2022-06-06 10:08:07 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-06-06 10:08:07 (GMT)
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gh-90473: WASI requires proper open(2) flags (GH-93529)
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call read/write/accept on a file descriptor that is passed into the process.
- ``socket.gethostname()`` and host name resolution APIs like
``socket.gethostbyname()`` are not implemented and always fail.
+- ``open(2)`` checks flags more strictly. Caller must pass either
+ ``O_RDONLY``, ``O_RDWR``, or ``O_WDONLY`` to ``os.open``. Directory file
+ descriptors must be created with flags ``O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY``.
- ``chmod(2)`` is not available. It's not possible to modify file permissions,
yet. A future version of WASI may provide a limited ``set_permissions`` API.
- User/group related features like ``os.chown()``, ``os.getuid``, etc. are