From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:25:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that the resource module does not attempt to mask platform
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.2c1~101
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73319ff580a2ae23e7f7332b5e12a2bd9dc61bbe;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarify that the resource module does not attempt to mask platform
differences by defining symbols not defined on particular platforms.
This closes SF bug #473433.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libresource.tex b/Doc/lib/libresource.tex
index 869bb17125f0..7e7e9c2c5f74 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libresource.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libresource.tex
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ used by \C{} programs.
 
 The \UNIX{} man page for \manpage{getrlimit}{2} lists the available
 resources.  Note that not all systems use the same symbol or same
-value to denote the same resource.
+value to denote the same resource.  This module does not attempt to
+mask platform differences --- symbols not defined for a platform will
+not be available from this module on that platform.
 
 \begin{datadesc}{RLIMIT_CORE}
   The maximum size (in bytes) of a core file that the current process