On Wed, Jun 3, 2015, at 09:08, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > random...@fastmail.us: > > > Why does the child process need to report the error at all? The parent > > process will find out naturally when *it* tries to close the same file > > descriptor. > > That's not how it goes. > > File descriptors are reference counted in the Linux kernel. Closes are > no-ops except for the last one that brings the reference count to zero. > > If the parent should close the file before the child, no error is > returned to the parent.
Why would the parent close it before the child? Your scenario doesn't seem to have anything to do with how people actually use subprocesses. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
