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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/13/2013 5:49 AM, Nick Coghlan
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I agree it makes it obvious what the right default behaviour should
be: flag every FD as sensitive by default, and pass an argument to say
"sensitive=False" when you want to disable Python's automatic
protections.</pre>
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"sensitive" is a bad name... because the data passed via an open
descriptor that _should_ be passed may well be sensitive, so saying
sensitive=False is false... it's just necessary to leave the
descriptor open to make things work...<br>
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