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os.O_CLOEXEC has been added to Python 3.3. This flag solves a race condition if the process is forked between open() and a call to fcntl() to set the FD_CLOEXEC flag.
The following patch written by neologix should fix this issue:
"""
diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
 _allocate_lock = _thread.allocate_lock
 _text_openflags = _os.O_RDWR | _os.O_CREAT | _os.O_EXCL
+if hasattr(_os, 'O_CLOEXEC'):
+ _text_openflags |= _os.O_CLOEXEC
 if hasattr(_os, 'O_NOINHERIT'):
 _text_openflags |= _os.O_NOINHERIT
 if hasattr(_os, 'O_NOFOLLOW'):
"""
The patch can be applied to Python 3.3 and 3.4.