Le 2 août 2013 08:32, "Charles-François Natali" <cf.nat...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > 2013/8/2 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: > > 2013/7/28 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > >>> (A) How should we support support where os.set_inheritable() is not > >>> supported? Can we announce that os.set_inheritable() is always > >>> available or not? Does such platform exist? > >> > >> FD_CLOEXEC is POSIX: > >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fcntl.html > > > > Ok, but this information does not help me. Does Python support > > non-POSIX platforms? (Windows has HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT.) > > > > If we cannot answer to my question, it's safer to leave > > os.get/set_inheritable() optional (need hasattr in tests for example). > > On Unix platforms, you should always have FD_CLOEXEC. > If there were such a platform without FD inheritance support, then it > would probably make sense to make it a no-op
Ok, and os.get_inheritable() can also always return False. It would prefer to fail with a compiler error is the platform is unknown. A platform might support FD inheritance, but with something different than fcntl() or ioctl() (ex: Windows). Victor
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