On 06Jul2013 11:23, Charles-François Natali <cf.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: | > I've read your "Rejected Alternatives" more closely and Ulrich | > Drepper's article, though I think the article also supports adding | > a blocking (default True) parameter to open() and os.open(). If you | > try to change that default on a platform where it doesn't work, an | > exception should be raised. | | Contrarily to close-on-exec, non-blocking only applies to a limited | type of files (e.g. it doesn't work for regular files, which represent | 90% of open() use cases).
sockets, pipes, serial devices, ... And you can set it on anything. Just because some things don't block anyway isn't really a counter argument. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hosfstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid _______________________________________________ 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
