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

[Glenn Linderman]

On 1/13/2013 5:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I agree it makes it obvious what the right default behaviour should
> be: flag every FD as sensitive by default, and pass an argument to say
> "sensitive=False" when you want to disable Python's automatic
> protections.

"sensitive" is a bad name... because the data passed via an open 
descriptor that _should_ be passed may well be sensitive, so saying 
sensitive=False is false... it's just necessary to leave the descriptor 
open to make things work...
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