7 Aug
2013
7 Aug
'13
10:25 p.m.
Also the socket library creates sockets with inheritable handles by default. Apparently there isn't a reliable way to make sockets non-inheritable because anti-virus/firewall software can interfere:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12058911/can-tcp-socket-handles-be-set-no... Recent versions of Windows provide an atomic flag to create a non-inheritable socket. I hope that the falg is respected even with antivirus/firewall. For older versions of Windows, I don't see what Python can do. Is it a blocker point for the PEP? Victor