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On Saturday, July 27, 2013, Victor Stinner wrote:

2013/7/27 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:

> Do we even need a new PEP, or should we just do it? Or can we adapt

> Victor's PEP 446?



I can rewrite the PEP 446 to:



* make all file descriptors and handles non-inheritable

* remove the cloexec parameter

* remove everything about non-blocking sockets (O_NONBLOCK), it should

be discussed in a new PEP (it's no more related to O_CLOEXEC /

HANDLE_INHERIT_FLAG)

Should I rename os.set_cloexec(fd, cloexec) to os.set_inheritable(fd,

inheritable), and os.get_cloexec(fd) to os.get_inheritable(fd)?

Or do you prefer a simple os.make_inheritable(fd) with no inheritable

parameter? I prefer an explicit parameter, so it's also possible to

force again non-inheritable, which also makes sense if the file

descriptor was not created by Python.

Victor