fcntl in windows

Afanasiy abelikov72 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 30 17:57:40 EDT 2003


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:29:46 GMT, Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:

>Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
>
>> Jp Calderone wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:26:29PM +0000, Afanasiy wrote:
>> >> Is there an fcntl in Windows? A stub, a wrapper, etc?

>Indeed, it would seem to me that implementing a version of fcntl on
>Windows would be flat out insane -- surely the sensible thing to do
>would be provide two implementations of whatever it is you need, the
>unix one of which calls fcntl.

Insane? I strongly disagree.

Sensible thing? I strongly disagree.

The sensible thing would provide the functionality
in a well designed platform independent module.

It is no matter though, the answer to my question is no.

-AB




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