[Python-ideas] Tulip / PEP 3156 (original) (raw)

[Python-ideas] Tulip / PEP 3156 - subprocess events

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Fri Jan 18 22:25:31 CET 2013

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:01:32PM +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm, I'm looking at a pipe transport on Unix, and I find I don't know enough about programming Unix. How do I set a file descriptor (specifically a pipe) in Unix to be nonblocking? For a socket, sock.setblocking(False) does the job. But for a pipe/file, the only thing I can see is the ONONBLOCK flag to os.open/os.pipe2. Is it not possible to set an already open file descriptor to be nonblocking?

http://linuxmanpages.com/man2/fcntl.2.php

The file status flags A file descriptor has certain associated flags, initialized by open(2) and possibly modified by fcntl(2). The flags are shared between copies (made with dup(2), fork(2), etc.) of the same file descriptor.

The flags and their semantics are described in open(2).

F_GETFL
    Read the file descriptor's flags.
F_SETFL
    Set the file status flags part of the descriptor's flags to the
    value specified by arg. Remaining bits (access mode, file creation
    flags) in arg are ignored. On Linux this command can only change the
    O_APPEND, O_NONBLOCK, O_ASYNC, and O_DIRECT flags.

Oleg.

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