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

[Richard Oudkerk]

On 30/07/2013 8:09am, Charles-François Natali wrote:
> 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).

Note that on Windows subprocess has no equivalent of a passfds argument, 
and if you redirect the standard streams then you are forced to inherit 
all inheritable handles.

-- 
Richard