On 06/08/2013 1:23am, Victor Stinner wrote:
Each operating system handles the inheritance of file descriptors differently. Windows creates non-inheritable file descriptors by default, whereas UNIX creates inheritable file descriptors by default.
The Windows API creates non-inheritable *handles* by default. But the C runtime creates inheritable fds by default.
Also the socket library creates sockets with inheritable handles by default. Apparently there isn't a reliable way to make sockets non-inheritable because anti-virus/firewall software can interfere:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12058911/can-tcp-socket-handles-be-set-not-inheritable -- Richard _______________________________________________ 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
