On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:58:59AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > (Question - is it *ever* possible for a Unix program to have invalid > file descriptors 0,1 and 2? At startup - I'm assuming anyone who does > os.close(1) knows what they are doing!)
Normally you don't close fd 0, 1 & 2 but rather redirect them to /dev/null (a black hole). That saves you from nastiness when a library or something misbahaves and tries to use one of those. It would have been nice if windows GUI-mode programs as you describe them would do something similar. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
