[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors (original) (raw)

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Tue Jan 15 19:59:06 CET 2013


On 01/14/2013 01:44 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

I think "protect" is far too vague. We don't want something so neutral that it gives no clue at all about its meaning.

My shoot-from-the-hip name suggestion: "sterile". (Does not produce offspring.)

When a process and a file descriptor love each other very much...

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