Hear the #error: change the default value of the mutable_arg argument

to ioctl() and remove the warning when it is not supplied.
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Michael W. Hudson 2004-11-30 14:31:54 +00:00
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@ -78,11 +78,9 @@ The module defines the following functions:
long which is then passed to \function{ioctl()} and copied back into
the supplied buffer.
If \var{mutate_flag} is not supplied, then in 2.3 it defaults to
false. This is planned to change over the next few Python versions:
in 2.4 failing to supply \var{mutate_flag} will get a warning but
the same behavior and in versions later than 2.5 it will default to
true.
If \var{mutate_flag} is not supplied, then from Python 2.5 it
defaults to true, which is a change from versions 2.3 and 2.4.
Supply the argument explicitly if version portability is a priority.
An example: