On 2017-10-06 17:05, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-10-06, Thomas Jollans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Seriously? sys.stdin can be None? That's terrifying.
>
> Why?
>
> Unix daemons usually run with no stdin, stderr, or stdout.
That's pretty rare. Usually they are just connected to /dev/null or a
log file. Completely closing them is dangerous: The next open will use
the first free file descriptor and there may be parts of your daemon
(e.g. a library function) which assumes that it can write on file
descriptor 2: You don't want random error messages or warnings appear in
one of your output files (there have been a few security holes because
of this).
hp
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