On 01/02/2013 1:44am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm guessing those system calls are just implemented by the kernel and cannot block for I/O, so it was deemed unnecessary to release the GIL around them. I don't mind changing that though, you can never know what happens when you make a system call.
close() can block, so I assume the same is true of dup2(), since dup2(oldfd, newfd) closes oldfd.
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