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On 1/13/2013 5:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I agree it makes it obvious what the right default behaviour should  
be: flag every FD as sensitive by default, and pass an argument to say  
"sensitive=False" when you want to disable Python's automatic  
protections.

"sensitive" is a bad name... because the data passed via an open descriptor that \_should\_ be passed may well be sensitive, so saying sensitive=False is false... it's just necessary to leave the descriptor open to make things work...