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

Martin Panter vadmium at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 19:56:10 EDT 2016


On 03/08/2016, 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

To give more context, this is about adding support for Linux’s copy_file_range() system call.

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.

I thought the main problem remaining was getting concensus about adding it, since a couple people mentioned waiting for glibc support. I don’t have much personal opinion on this, but FWIW I don’t see much disadvantage in adding it now.

I did mean to look over your latest patch, but that has drifted towards the bottom of my list of things to do :)



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