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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 12:46:09 CET 2013

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:

So I'm definitely -1 against any form of tunable value (be it a sys.setdefaultcloexec(), an environment variable or command-line flag), and still against changing the default value.

I now think the conservative option is to initially implement the design in 3.4 without an option to change the global default. The "cloexec=True/False" model at least supports a tunable default, as well as eventually changing the default if we choose to do so, but I don't think there's any hurry to proceed to those steps.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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