2013/8/21 Richard Oudkerk <shibt...@gmail.com>: > On 21/08/2013 1:19am, Victor Stinner wrote: >> 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. > > Anti-virus software and firewalls can stop SetHandleInformation() from > working properly on sockets: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12058911/can-tcp-socket-handles-be-set-not-inheritable
Yeah, I know, I already added the link to the PEP. I improved the implementation of the PEP 446: it now uses the WSA_FLAG_NO_HANDLE_INHERIT flag when it is available (Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, which is probably a minor percentage of Windows installations). On older Windows versions, I don't see what Python can do to workaround the issue except of calling SetHandleInformation() on the result of WSASocket(). 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
