STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > The real issue is that the libc defines O_CLOEXEC, but kernels prior > to 2.6.23 don't support it: instead of returning EINVAL, the socket > syscall silently ignores the flag (don't know why I made the comment > about this flag being defined to 0...).
This is a kernel bug, not a bug in the GNU libc (ask Ulrich if you are not sure ;-)). An host can have multiple kernel versions (and choose at boot time using GRUB/LILO/...), but it has usually only one C library. You cannot change the version of the libc depending on the kernel. If you really want to fix this problem, you will have to patch kernel < 2.6.23. Good luck! Or we can workaround kernel bugs providing a documentation and/or functions for that. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12105> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
