[docs] [issue20100] epoll docs are not clear with regards to CLOEXEC.

[R. David Murray]

New submission from R. David Murray:

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/select.html#select.epoll documents the EPOLL_CLOEXEC flag as something you can specify that makes the file descriptor be closed on exec.  But then it goes on to say that the file descriptor is non-inheritable.  So is the flag useless and should be removed from the docs, or is the documentation just unclear as to its purpose?  Or, conversely, do we need a way to say that the file descriptor should *not* be closed on exec?

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 207121
nosy: docs at python, haypo, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: epoll docs are not clear with regards to CLOEXEC.
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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