[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors (original) (raw)
Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Jan 14 03:19:47 CET 2013
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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... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130113/e45a3a68/attachment.html>
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