[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Choose the default value of the new cloexec parameter (original) (raw)

Ralf Schmitt ralf at systemexit.de
Tue Jan 29 11:24:49 CET 2013

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

Le Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:35:40 +0100, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at systemexit.de> a écrit :

I'd rather not have to check if some library messes with that global setting and work around it if it does! Then just don't try changing the flag. Problem solved.

I was talking about some library changing the flag. Not changing the flag myself doesn't help in that case. I'll probably have to explicitly pass a cloexec argument to each fd creating function I'm calling in order to not be dependent on the global setting.

Please just acknowledge that having a global configurable setting may lead to problems. Why is sys.setdefaultencoding being hidden in python 2?

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