Merged revisions 59883-59920 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59887 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-10 06:42:58 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Reword entry, not sure I made it much better though.
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  r59888 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-10 14:37:12 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Check for fd of -1 to save fsync() and fstat() call
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  r59891 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-10 19:45:40 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Reflow a paragraph, and fix a typo.
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  r59892 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-10 20:15:10 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Examples for named tuple subclassing should include __slots__
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  r59895 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-10 21:37:12 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Clarify how to add a field to a named tuple.
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  r59896 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-01-10 22:59:42 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 12 lines

  Closing issue1761.
  Surprising behaviour of the "$" regexp: it matches the
  end of the string, AND just before the newline at the end
  of the string::

      re.sub('$', '#', 'foo\n') == 'foo#\n#'

  Python is consistent with Perl and the pcre library, so
  we just document it.
  Guido prefers "\Z" to match only the end of the string.
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  r59898 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 00:00:01 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Neaten-up the named tuple docs
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  r59900 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 01:23:13 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Run doctests on the collections module
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  r59903 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 02:25:54 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Doctest results return a named tuple for readability
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  r59904 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 03:12:33 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Comment-out missing constant (from rev 59819)
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  r59905 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 03:24:13 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Have Decimal.as_tuple return a named tuple.
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  r59906 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 04:04:50 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Let most inspect functions return named tuples
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  r59907 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 04:20:54 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Improve usability of the SequenceMatcher by returning named tuples describing match ranges.
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  r59909 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 09:04:03 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add an important missing blank.
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  r59910 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:19:11 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Guard definition of TIPC_SUB_CANCEL with an #ifdef.
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  r59911 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:20:58 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  News entries for rev. 5990[567].
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  r59912 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:55:53 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Documentation for r5990[3567].
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  r59913 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 13:41:39 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  The sqlite3 dll, when compiled in debug mode, must be linked with /MDd
  to use the debug runtime library.  Further, the dll will be named
  sqlite3_d.dll.
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  r59919 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 16:38:46 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Revert revision 59913, because it was wrong:

    The sqlite3 dll, when compiled in debug mode, must be linked with
    /MDd to use the debug runtime library.  Further, the dll will be
    named sqlite3_d.dll.
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  r59920 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-11 16:42:29 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Removed unused variable
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/mmapmodule.c b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
index 84f909e184..8302767277 100644
--- a/Modules/mmapmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
@@ -980,9 +980,11 @@ new_mmap_object(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwdict)
 #ifdef HAVE_FSTAT
 #  ifdef __VMS
 	/* on OpenVMS we must ensure that all bytes are written to the file */
-	fsync(fd);
+	if (fd != -1) {
+	        fsync(fd);
+	}
 #  endif
-	if (fstat(fd, &st) == 0 && S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
+	if (fd != -1 && fstat(fd, &st) == 0 && S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
 		if (map_size == 0) {
 			map_size = st.st_size;
 		} else if ((size_t)offset + (size_t)map_size > st.st_size) {