[Python-Dev] Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 August 2013 22:52, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I checked the python-daemon module: it closes all open file
> descriptors except 0, 1, 2. It has a files_preserve attribute to keep
> some FD opens. It redirects stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null and
> keep these file descriptors open. If python-daemon is used to execute
> a new program, the files_preserve list can be used to mark these file
> descriptors as inherited.
>
> The zdaemon.zdrun module closes all open file descriptors except 0, 1,
> 2. It uses also dup2() to redirect stdout and stderr to the write end
> of a pipe.

So closed by default, and directing people towards subprocess and
python-daemon if they need to keep descriptors open sounds really
promising.

Cheers,
Nick.

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