[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Choose the default value of the new cloexec parameter

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Charles-François Natali
<cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm definitely -1 against any form of tunable value (be it a
> sys.setdefaultcloexec(), an environment variable or command-line
> flag), and still against changing the default value.

I now think the conservative option is to initially implement the
design in 3.4 without an option to change the global default. The
"cloexec=True/False" model at least *supports* a tunable default, as
well as eventually *changing* the default if we choose to do so, but I
don't think there's any hurry to proceed to those steps.

Cheers,
Nick.

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