[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Add new parameters to configure the inherance of files and for non-blocking sockets (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Sun Jul 7 02:30:56 CEST 2013

On 06Jul2013 11:23, Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote: | > I've read your "Rejected Alternatives" more closely and Ulrich | > Drepper's article, though I think the article also supports adding | > a blocking (default True) parameter to open() and os.open(). If you | > try to change that default on a platform where it doesn't work, an | > exception should be raised. || Contrarily to close-on-exec, non-blocking only applies to a limited | type of files (e.g. it doesn't work for regular files, which represent | 90% of open() use cases).

sockets, pipes, serial devices, ...

And you can set it on anything. Just because some things don't block anyway isn't really a counter argument.

Cheers,

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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