[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Charles-François Natali
<cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:
>> XXX Should ``subprocess.Popen`` set the close-on-exec flag on file XXX
>> XXX descriptors of the constructor the ``pass_fds`` argument?      XXX
>
> What?
> Setting them cloexec would prevent them from being inherited in the
> child process!

Perhaps Victor meant "clear" rather than "set" in this comment?

Cheers,
Nick.

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