2013/1/7 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I would like add a new flag to open() mode to close the file on exec: > "e". This feature exists using different APIs depending on the OS and > OS version: O_CLOEXEC, FD_CLOEXEC and O_NOINHERIT. Do you consider > that such flag would be interesting?
I'm not sure it's worth cluttering the open() interface with such a non-portable option. People requiring such control should use the low-level os.open interface. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
