On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> It also means we're free to implement a mechanism that tries to close >> all sensitive file descriptors in _PyOS_AfterFork. > > Ouch! This actually shows that "noinherit" is a very bad name. The PEP > is about closing fds after exec(), *not* after fork(). So "cloexec" is > really the right, precise, non-ambiguous name here.
No, 'cloexec' is a terrible name, because, aside from the cryptic opacity of it, it's also wrong on Windows, which doesn't have the fork() vs exec() distinction. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
