[issue5396] os.read not handling O_DIRECT flag

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> added the comment:

> I think the policy is to mirror all possible O_* constants, even if they
> are of no use in Python. For example, we also have os.O_DIRECTORY.


Not disagreeing with the conclusion of this ticket, but I would like to
point out that os.O_DIRECTORY isn't useless in Python.  You need it to
use with os.open if you want to open a directory (which you may wish to
do in order to use with os.fsync, for example).

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nosy: +exarkun

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