[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 433: inherance => inheritance

Wed Jan 30 09:52:24 CET 2013

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fdf10a400fd9
changeset: 4701:fdf10a400fd9
user: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
date: Wed Jan 30 09:51:02 2013 +0100
summary:
 PEP 433: inherance => inheritance
files:
 pep-0433.txt | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0433.txt b/pep-0433.txt
--- a/pep-0433.txt
+++ b/pep-0433.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 close-on-exec flag is cleared and if ``CreateProcess()`` is called with
 the *bInheritHandles* parameter set to ``TRUE`` (when
 ``subprocess.Popen`` is created with ``close_fds=False`` for example).
-Windows does now have "close-on-exec" flag but an inherance flag which
+Windows does now have "close-on-exec" flag but an inheritance flag which
 is just the opposite value. For example, setting close-on-exec flag
 means clearing the ``HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT`` flag of an handle.
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
 * It is not more possible to know if the close-on-exec flag will be
 set or not on a newly created file descriptor just by reading the
 source code.
- * If the inherance of a file descriptor matters, the *cloexec*
+ * If the inheritance of a file descriptor matters, the *cloexec*
 parameter must now be specified explicitly, or the library or the
 application will not work depending on the default value of the
 *cloexec* parameter.
@@ -244,12 +244,12 @@
 Alternatives
 ============
 
-Enable inherance by default and no configurable default
+Inheritance enabled by default, default no configurable
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
 Add a new optional parameter *cloexec* on functions creating file
 descriptors. The default value of the *cloexec* parameter is ``False``,
-and this default cannot be changed. No file descriptor inherance by
+and this default cannot be changed. No file descriptor inheritance by
 default is also the default on POSIX and on Windows. This alternative is
 the most convervative option.
 
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@
 module used by an application to fix all these issues.
 
 
-Enable inherance by default, default can only be set to True
-------------------------------------------------------------
+Inheritance enabled by default, default can only be set to True
+---------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This alternative is based on the proposal: the only difference is that
 ``sys.setdefaultcloexec()`` does not take any argument, it can only be
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
 
 * There are far more programs that are bitten by FD inheritance upon
 exec (see `Inherited file descriptors issues`_ and `Security`_)
- than programs relying on it (see `Applications using inherance of
+ than programs relying on it (see `Applications using inheritance of
 file descriptors`_).
 
 Drawbacks of setting close-on-exec flag by default:
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 * Extra system calls, if any, may slow down Python: see
 `Performances`_.
 
-Backward compatibility: only a few programs rely on inherance of file
+Backward compatibility: only a few programs rely on inheritance of file
 descriptors, and they only pass a few file descriptors, usually just
 one. These programs will fail immediatly with ``EBADF`` error, and it
 will be simple to fix them: add ``cloexec=False`` parameter or use
@@ -366,11 +366,11 @@
 
 
 
-Applications using inherance of file descriptors
-================================================
+Applications using inheritance of file descriptors
+==================================================
 
 Most developers don't know that file descriptors are inherited by
-default. Most programs do not rely on inherance of file descriptors.
+default. Most programs do not rely on inheritance of file descriptors.
 For example, ``subprocess.Popen`` was changed in Python 3.2 to close
 all file descriptors greater than 2 in the child process by default.
 No user complained about this behavior change yet.
-- 
Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps
