Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I don't think so. One more important use case is when running a Unix
> daemon, which has (AFAIK) to close all std handles.

I just took a look at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/, and it
uses dup2() to redirect standard streams, which is far nicer.

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