[Python-Dev] (New) PEP 446: Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable
Victor Stinner
victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 03:12:17 CEST 2013
2013/8/12 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
> I fixed various bugs in the implementation of the (new) PEP 446:
> http://hg.python.org/features/pep-446
>
> At revision da685bd67524, the full test suite pass on: (...)
I also checked the usage of atomic flags. There was a minor bug on
Linux, it is now fixed (remove an useless call to fcntl to check if
SOCK_CLOEXEC works).
open(): On Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris 11, O_CLOEXEC flag is used.
fcntl(F_GETFD) is only called once for all file descriptors, to check
if O_CLOEXEC works. On Windows, O_NOINHERIT is used.
socket.socket(): On Linux, SOCK_CLOEXEC flag is used, no extra syscall
is required.
os.pipe(): On Linux, pipe2() is used with O_CLOEXEC.
On other platforms, os.set_inheritable() must be called to make the
new file descriptors non-inheritables.
On Windows, the atomic flag WSA_FLAG_NO_HANDLE_INHERIT is not used to
create a socket. I don't know the Windows well enough to make such
change.
My OpenIndiana VM looks to be older than Solaris 11: O_CLOEXEC flag is missing.
I regenerated the patch in the isssue: http://bugs.python.org/issue18571
Victor
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