From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:41:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: whatsnew: os.open O_TMPFILE (#18673).
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~69
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a69bb5cc48f71df757c4b43aae6f1e4fe7dab64e;p=python

whatsnew: os.open O_TMPFILE (#18673).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index f392560d0a..34607b87f4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1129,6 +1129,11 @@ Windows).  (Contributed by Brian Curtin in :issue:`11939`.)
 :func:`os.path.ismount` now recognizes volumes mounted below a drive
 root on Windows. (Contributed by Tim Golden in :issue:`9035`.)
 
+:func:`os.open` supports a new flag, :data:`~os.O_TMPFILE` (unnamed temporary
+file) on platforms that provide it (as of 3.4.0 release, that means Linux
+systems with a kernel version of 3.11 or newer that have uapi headers).
+(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`18673`.)
+
 
 pdb
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