[Python-Dev] fork or exec?

[Ross Lagerwall]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:57:30PM +0000, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> My point was that the GnuPG usage looked like an example where fds other than
> 0, 1 and 2 might be used by design in not-uncommonly-used programs. From a
> discussion I had with Barry Warsaw a while ago, I seem to remember that there
> was other software which relied on these features. See [1] for details.
> 

>From the "dpkg" man page:

--command-fd n
              Accept a series of commands on input file descriptor n.
              Note: additional options
              set  on  the  command  line, and through this file
              descriptor, are not reset for
              subsequent commands executed during the same run.

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Ross Lagerwall