P.S. perhaps more important than a PEP rewrite is a working patch to see how realistic this is. Could you make the alpha 1 release?

On Saturday, July 27, 2013, Guido van Rossum wrote:


On Saturday, July 27, 2013, Victor Stinner wrote:
2013/7/27 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
> Do we even need a new PEP, or should we just do it? Or can we adapt
> Victor's PEP 446?

I can rewrite the PEP 446 to:

* make all file descriptors and handles non-inheritable
* remove the cloexec parameter
* remove everything about non-blocking sockets (O_NONBLOCK), it should
be discussed in a new PEP (it's no more related to O_CLOEXEC /
HANDLE_INHERIT_FLAG)

Sounds good. 

Should I rename os.set_cloexec(fd, cloexec) to os.set_inheritable(fd,
inheritable), and os.get_cloexec(fd) to os.get_inheritable(fd)?

Yes. 

Or do you prefer a simple os.make_inheritable(fd) with no inheritable
parameter? I prefer an explicit parameter, so it's also possible to
force again non-inheritable, which also makes sense if the file
descriptor was not created by Python.

Agreed. 

Victor


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