[Python-Dev] stuck issue 26826 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Aug 3 13:46:13 EDT 2016

I wonder if the issue isn't that there are so many Linux syscalls that we probably should have a process for deciding which ones are worth supporting in the os module, and that process should not necessarily start with a patch review. What fraction of Linux syscalls do we currently support? What fraction of BSD syscalls? How much of this is better served by a 3rd party module? Certainly it's not rocket science to write a C extension module that wraps a syscall or a bunch of them.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Marcos Dione <mdione at grulic.org.ar> wrote:

Hi pythonistas. A couple of moths ago I opened an issue in the bug tracker for adding a new syscall to the os module. It's based on new developments in the Linux kernel. Here's the link: https://bugs.python.org/issue26826 After two months and a half I managed to create a nice patch with unit tests and documentation (yay!), but then the issue went cold. I would like to know how to proceed to get the issue going again. Cheers, -- Marcos. -- (Not so) Random fortune: Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. -- Bruce Schneier

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