STINNER Victor added the comment: On Windows, handles are created non-inheritable by default, but I would prefer to double check.
The tool "Handle" can be used to list all open handles of a process: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx To test that all handles are non-inheritable: run all Python unit tests, create a subprocesss with close_fds=False, list open handles of the child process and check that the list of not longer than a fresh Python process. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21384> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com