2013/8/21 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > Also, are you sure the things returned by socket.fleno() are really Windows > handles? I thought they were some other artificial namespace used just by > sockets.
(You know what? I know understand and love the UNIX concept "everything is file"!) I don't know if a socket handle is similar to file handles or if they are specials. At least, GetHandleInformation() and SetHandleInformation() functions, used by os.get/set_handle_inheritable(), accept socket handles. Outside the socket module, the subprocess and multiprocessing modules use also Windows handles. The subprocess has for example a private _make_inheritable() method which could be replaced with os.set_handle_inheritable(). I'm not sure because _make_inheritable() duplicates the input handle, whereas os.set_handle_inheritable() modify directly the handle. I don't know why the handle needs to be duplicated. Victor _______________________________________________ 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
