[issue8052] subprocess close_fds behavior should only close open fds

Martin v. Löwis report at bugs.python.org
Sun Mar 27 20:39:36 CEST 2011


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Can we use FD_CLOEXEC to archive this goal? 

I think we should use FD_CLOEXEC in all places where it's reasonable.
As others have pointed out, we shouldn't set FD_CLOEXEC for file
descriptors where the application hasn't explicitly requested that.

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