On 5 August 2013 22:52, Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > I checked the python-daemon module: it closes all open file > descriptors except 0, 1, 2. It has a files_preserve attribute to keep > some FD opens. It redirects stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null and > keep these file descriptors open. If python-daemon is used to execute > a new program, the files_preserve list can be used to mark these file > descriptors as inherited. > > The zdaemon.zdrun module closes all open file descriptors except 0, 1, > 2. It uses also dup2() to redirect stdout and stderr to the write end > of a pipe.
So closed by default, and directing people towards subprocess and python-daemon if they need to keep descriptors open sounds really promising. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com