On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 00:36:59 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:51:36 +0100
schrieb "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <[email protected]>:
Now that the big pieces are seemingly falling into place, it
is probably time for bikeshedding. I was thinking clearEnv or
newEnv, but ignoreParentEnv is perhaps more explicit.
I think clearEnv is pretty clear already. Someone should put
up an online poll for that.
Bikeshedding, yes, but I don't think we've quite reached the
point where we need polls yet. :)
dontDoTheCloseThing became inheritFDs, btw. :) Also open for
suggestions on that one.
Looks like a mix of Windows and Unix terminology. :)
closeHandlesOnExec anyone? Am I right assuming that on Windows
it will just not set the bInheritHandles flag?
You are not entirely right. The flag is used only by POSIX code,
and causes spawnProcess() to *not* close all open file
descriptors. On Windows, inheritFDs has no effect whatsoever.
closeHandlesOnExec looks even more like a mix to me. I can't
recall ever seeing the word "handle" used in *NIX documentation.
"File descriptor" is used pretty consistently. I also tried to
avoid using the words "close on exec" in the name, because I
didn't want users to think this has anything to do with the
FD_CLOEXEC flag.
Lars
