[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 02:21:19 CEST 2013


2013/7/30 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:

I would be nice to have a "passhandles" on Windows.

I'm not sure that it's possible to implement this atomically. It's probably better to leave the application to choose how the inheritance is defined.

Example:

for handle in handles: os.set_inheritable(handle, True) subprocess.call(...) for handle in handles: os.set_inheritable(handle, False)

This example is safe if the application has a single thread (if a single thread spawn new programs). Making handles non-inheritable again may be useless.

Victor



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