On 13/01/2013 00:41, Victor Stinner wrote:
PEP: 433
Title: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors
Status: Draft
The PEP is still a draft. I'm sending it to python-dev to get a first review.
The main question is the choice between the 3 different options:
* don't set close-on-exec flag by default
* always set close-on-exec flag
* add sys.setdefaultcloexec() to leave the choice to the application
Victor
Nice clear explanation.
I think io, meaning _io and _pyio really, would be amongst the impacted
modules, and should perhaps be in the examples. (I am currently working
on the Jython implementation of the _io module.) It seems to me that
io.open, and probably all the constructors, such as _io.FileIO, would
need the extra information as a mode or a boolean argument like closefd.
This may be a factor in your choice above.
Other things I noticed were minor, and I infer that they should wait
until principles are settled.
Jeff Allen
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