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* #7479: add note about function availability on Unices.Georg Brandl2009-12-191-13/+18
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* Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providingAntoine Pitrou2009-12-021-0/+9
| | | | | access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
* Fix versions and spacing.Georg Brandl2009-11-281-4/+10
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* fix typoGregory P. Smith2009-11-271-2/+2
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* Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.Martin v. Löwis2009-11-271-4/+30
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* Fix missing word.Georg Brandl2009-10-181-1/+1
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* #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with ↵Georg Brandl2009-10-141-3/+3
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* Fix markup for external links.Doug Hellmann2009-09-201-1/+1
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* #6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.Georg Brandl2009-08-241-1/+4
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* #6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files.Georg Brandl2009-08-241-9/+9
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* #6577: fix (hopefully) all links to builtin instead of module/class-specific ↵Georg Brandl2009-07-261-8/+8
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* Issue 6389: add documentation for the 'mode' flags defined in theR. David Murray2009-07-021-19/+19
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* Issue 2947: document how return code handling translates fromR. David Murray2009-06-091-2/+2
| | | | | os.popen to subprocess. Also fixes reference link in the os.spawn documentation.
* no fdatasync on macosBenjamin Peterson2009-05-301-0/+3
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* Fix references to file-related functions and methods (os.* vs file.*).Georg Brandl2009-05-221-15/+15
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* #2856: document 2.x os.listdir() behavior for undecodable filenames.Georg Brandl2009-05-161-1/+2
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* #1718017: document the relation of os.path and the posixpath, ntpath etc. ↵Georg Brandl2009-04-051-9/+0
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* #837577: note cryptic return value of spawn*e on invalid env dicts.Georg Brandl2009-03-311-1/+3
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* give os.symlink and os.link() better parameter names #5564Benjamin Peterson2009-03-281-4/+6
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* Remove trailing whitespace.Georg Brandl2009-01-031-7/+7
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* #4441 followup: Add link to open() docs for Windows.Georg Brandl2008-12-051-2/+2
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* #4441: improve doc for os.open() flags.Georg Brandl2008-12-051-12/+10
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* #4404: make clear what "path" is.Georg Brandl2008-11-241-4/+4
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* Works around issue3863: freebsd4/5/6 and os2emx are known to have OS bugs whenGregory P. Smith2008-09-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | calling fork() from a child thread. This disables that unit test (with a note printed to stderr) on those platforms. A caveat about buggy platforms is added to the os.fork documentation.
* #1579477: mention necessity to flush output before exec'ingAndrew M. Kuchling2008-09-281-3/+10
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* Remove things specific to the old Macintosh, and spell "Mac OS X" consistently.Georg Brandl2008-09-131-119/+117
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* note how os.utime should be used for emulating touchBenjamin Peterson2008-08-161-9/+10
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* document that waitpid raises OSErrorGregory P. Smith2008-08-151-0/+3
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* Turn section references into proper cross-references.Georg Brandl2008-06-221-13/+9
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* In the deprecated functions I added an alert to reviewFacundo Batista2008-06-211-6/+13
| | | | | specially a section of the subprocess documentation that helps with the replacing of those functionss.
* getloadavg() is not available on Windows.Georg Brandl2008-05-301-1/+1
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* Document O_ASYNC addition.Georg Brandl2008-05-161-1/+2
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* Clarify os.strerror()s exception behavior.Georg Brandl2008-05-111-1/+2
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* #2634: clarify meaning of env parameter to spawn/exec*e.Georg Brandl2008-04-191-2/+4
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* note that fork and forkpty raise OSError on failureSkip Montanaro2008-03-151-2/+4
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* #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times()Georg Brandl2008-02-131-1/+1
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* #1663329: add os.closerange() to close a range of fds,Georg Brandl2008-01-191-0/+14
| | | | | ignoring errors, and use this in subprocess to speed up subprocess creation in close_fds mode. Patch by Mike Klaas.
* Move OSError docs to exceptions doc, remove obsolete descriptionsGeorg Brandl2008-01-121-42/+19
| | | | from os docs, rework posix docs.
* Doc patch #1730 from Robin Stocker; minor corrections mostly to os.rst.Georg Brandl2008-01-051-76/+77
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* Some cleanup in the docs.Georg Brandl2007-12-291-9/+1
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* Move lchmod() docs to correct place, and add versionadded tags.Georg Brandl2007-11-301-7/+13
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* Fix for feature request #1528 Add os.fchmodChristian Heimes2007-11-301-0/+20
| | | | | Georg Brandl has added fchmod() and fchown(). I've contributed lchown but I'm not able to test it on Linux. However it should be available on Mac and some other flavors of Unix. I've made a quick test of fchmod() and fchown() on my system. They are working as expected.
* #1735632: add O_NOATIME constant to os module.Georg Brandl2007-11-241-8/+10
| | | | Also document a few other O_ constants that were missing from documentation.
* Added more file-handling related cross-references.Mark Summerfield2007-11-021-1/+6
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* #1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat.Georg Brandl2007-11-011-2/+3
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* Bug #1287: make os.environ.pop() work as expected.Georg Brandl2007-10-241-2/+3
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* Unify "file-descriptor" to "file descriptor".Georg Brandl2007-10-211-1/+1
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* Patch #1181: add os.environ.clear() method.Georg Brandl2007-09-201-2/+6
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* Replaced variable o with obj in operator.rst because o is easy toMark Summerfield2007-09-131-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | confuse. Added a note about Python 3's collections.Mapping etc., above section that describes isMappingType() etc. Added xrefs between os, os.path, fileinput, and open().
* Move the 2.6 reST doc tree in place.Georg Brandl2007-08-151-0/+2116