Hi,
I think the complaint is not so much about simplicity, but correctness.
close_fd also closes stdin/stdout/stderr, which might be undesirable and differs from POSIX.
According to the docs, stdin/stdout and stderr are not closed ( http://docs.python.org/lib/node529.html) Matthieu
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com