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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2013-08-27 22:53:59 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2013-08-27 22:53:59 (GMT)
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Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file handles
are now created non-inheritable; add functions os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().
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@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ def open(file, mode="r", buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None,
be kept open when the file is closed. This does not work when a file name is
given and must be True in that case.
+ The newly created file is non-inheritable.
+
A custom opener can be used by passing a callable as *opener*. The
underlying file descriptor for the file object is then obtained by calling
*opener* with (*file*, *flags*). *opener* must return an open file