[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:09:38 +0200,
Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Perhaps this advocates for a global flag, e.g.
> > sys.set_default_fd_inheritance(), with False (non-inheritable) being
> > the default for sanity and security.
> 
> This looks more and more like PEP 433 :-)
> 
> And honestly, when I think about it, I think that this whole mess is a
> solution looking for a problem.
> If we don't want to inherit file descriptors in child processes, the
> answer is simple: the subprocess module (this fact is not even
> mentioned in the PEP).

This is a good point. Are there any reasons (other than fd inheritance)
not to use subprocess? If there are, perhaps we should try to eliminate
them by improving subprocess.

Regards

Antoine.