Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > Why should it? > > fstat() does not need to create a new file descriptor. Creating a new > file descriptor can fail (ex: limit of the number of open files).
Why should I care? fstat() can fail too. The only important thing is whether dup() returns EBADF or not. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18804> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com