On Wed, Jun 3, 2015, at 10:43, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > However, the child process needs to be prepared for os.close() to block > indefinitely because of an NFS problem or because SO_LINGER has been > specified by the parent, for example. Setting the close-on-exec flag > doesn't help there.
Out of curiosity, does exec block in this situation? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list