On 23 July 2013 23:45, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Said differently: the HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT flag only has an effect on > *handles*, as indicated in its name. On Windows, file *descriptors* > are never inherited (are always closed) in child processes. I don't > think that it is possible to inherit file descriptors on Windows. > That is correct - handles are the OS-level concept, fds are implemented in the CRT. So code that uses raw Windows APIs to create a new process won't have any means to inherit fds. > The fix would be simpler if Python would provide the handle of a file > object (ex: in a method) and if open() supported opening a handle as > it does with file descriptors on UNIX. > That would give a similar level of functionality to Unix. Whether it is used sufficiently often to be worth it, is a separate question, of course... Paul
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