On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:07:55 -0500, alf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > >I need a help with explaining following behavior. Although it is not >python issue per say, python helped me to write sample programs and >originally I encountered the issue using python software. So let's >assume we have two following programs: > > [snip - file descriptors inherited by child process]
You can avoid this, if you like. Set FD_CLOEXEC on the socket after you open it, before you call os.system: old = fcntl.fcntl(s.fileno(), fcntl.F_GETFD) fcntl.fcntl(s.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETFD, old | fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC) Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
