log Doc/lib/libos.tex @ 21467:4e35fa5d5708 legacy-trunk

age author description
Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:37:17 +0000 Tim Peters s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. legacy-trunk
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:48:44 +0000 Fred Drake Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs legacy-trunk
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:26:15 +0000 Fred Drake Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:58:30 +0000 Fred Drake Straighten out the exec*() function descriptions a bit, and clarify a few legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:07:12 +0000 Martin v. Löwis Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments. legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 04:06:00 +0000 Martin v. Löwis Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. legacy-trunk
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:07:04 +0000 Fred Drake Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*() legacy-trunk
Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:44:26 +0000 Martin v. Löwis Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267. legacy-trunk
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:14:18 +0000 Fred Drake Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows. legacy-trunk
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:56:51 +0000 Fred Drake Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the legacy-trunk
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:21:28 +0000 Fred Drake Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the legacy-trunk
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:20:56 +0000 Fred Drake Typo: Added missing "if". legacy-trunk
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:39:18 +0000 Fred Drake Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), and legacy-trunk
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:50:55 +0000 Fred Drake Minor changes to match the style guide. legacy-trunk
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 20:30:11 +0000 Fred Drake Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make legacy-trunk
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:32:09 +0000 Fred Drake Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and 2.1
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:17:32 +0000 Fred Drake Clarified documentation for os.access(). 2.1
Wed, 01 May 2002 03:33:02 +0000 Fred Drake Explain what os.read() returns at end of file. 2.1
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:41:58 +0000 Fred Drake Properly mark the availability of tempnam() and tmpnam(). 2.1
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:25:34 +0000 Fred Drake Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of legacy-trunk
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:21:48 +0000 Fred Drake Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added legacy-trunk
Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:31:17 +0000 Skip Montanaro is -> if in rename description legacy-trunk
Thu, 31 May 2001 20:27:46 +0000 Fred Drake Document os.getenv(). legacy-trunk
Tue, 29 May 2001 18:13:06 +0000 Fred Drake readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either legacy-trunk
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 05:33:46 +0000 Fred Drake Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged legacy-trunk
Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:46:11 +0000 Fred Drake For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as legacy-trunk
Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:57:27 +0000 Fred Drake Added \versionchanged comment to os.popen() noting that it was unreliable legacy-trunk
Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:14:27 +0000 Fred Drake Remove old note that os.popen() on Windows is unreliable; this is no legacy-trunk
Fri, 29 Sep 2000 04:15:19 +0000 Fred Drake os.startfile() documentation, based on text from Tim Peters. legacy-trunk
Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:27:51 +0000 Fred Drake Updated documentation relating to the various flavors of popen[234]() legacy-trunk
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 05:22:07 +0000 Fred Drake Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the legacy-trunk
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:19:51 +0000 Fred Drake O_BINARY: Documented this constant; omission noted by David Ascher. legacy-trunk
Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:30:58 +0000 Skip Montanaro added doc for isatty() legacy-trunk
Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:01:10 +0000 Thomas Wouters Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope legacy-trunk
Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:26:58 +0000 Andrew M. Kuchling From Sam Rushing's Medusa, via SF patch #100858: add & document legacy-trunk
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:06:19 +0000 Fred Drake Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0. legacy-trunk
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:27:48 +0000 Fred Drake Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>: legacy-trunk
Tue, 02 May 2000 17:29:35 +0000 Fred Drake Use \versionchanged to indicate when the second parameter to utime() legacy-trunk
Mon, 01 May 2000 16:18:22 +0000 Barry Warsaw Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the legacy-trunk
Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:13:55 +0000 Fred Drake Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. legacy-trunk
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:19:38 +0000 Fred Drake Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and related legacy-trunk
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:39:04 +0000 Fred Drake Document getgroups(), getlogin(), fpathconf(), pathconf(), legacy-trunk
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:11:43 +0000 Fred Drake Document the new stuff in the os module. legacy-trunk
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:38:39 +0000 Fred Drake os.name: Note that 'java' is one of the registered names. legacy-trunk
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:36:33 +0000 Fred Drake Explain the possible range of values for the pid parameter to legacy-trunk
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:41:31 +0000 Fred Drake Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for fdopen(). legacy-trunk
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:49:30 +0000 Fred Drake Move chdir() and getcwd() descriptions to "Files and Directories" with legacy-trunk
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:01:03 +0000 Fred Drake For spawn*(), point to the magic constants; some readers have a hard legacy-trunk
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:54:40 +0000 Fred Drake Per Frank Stajano's suggestion, state explicitly that the functions legacy-trunk
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:11:25 +0000 Fred Drake Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return legacy-trunk
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:28:37 +0000 Fred Drake Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name. legacy-trunk
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:07:05 +0000 Fred Drake At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0 legacy-trunk
Tue, 25 May 1999 13:42:26 +0000 Fred Drake "proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>. legacy-trunk
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:57:32 +0000 Fred Drake Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black legacy-trunk
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:13:31 +0000 Fred Drake Small markup nits. legacy-trunk
Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:08:10 +0000 Fred Drake Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported legacy-trunk
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:05:02 +0000 Fred Drake Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability" legacy-trunk
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:40:19 +0000 Fred Drake Remove "_" from the P_* symbols used with the spawn*() functions. legacy-trunk
Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:32:37 +0000 Guido van Rossum Portability fix for [f]statvfs() return tuple: no longer return the legacy-trunk
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:02:35 +0000 Fred Drake Fix the os/posix documentation issue. legacy-trunk