On 22 May 2001, Guido van Rossum said:
> I would prefer to document the difference so applications can decide
> how to deal with this.
I agree -- it has always seemed to me that the standard library merely
exposes the underlying OS functionality for you. This puts portability
somewhat in the hands of the application writer -- with power comes
responsibility. I think that's the way it should be; any attempt to
convert OS A to the semantics of OS B will fall down somewhere. Witness
the loss-of-atomicity in Guido's example. I'm sure any other semantic
difference between OSes would have similar "gotchas" if we attempted to
paper over them.
Greg
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