In article <518c7f05$0$29997$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> there is no way to create a C file descriptor in a closed state. Such > a thing does not exist. If you have a file descriptor, the file is > open. Once you close it, the file descriptor is no longer valid. Of course there is. int fd = 37; I've just created a file descriptor. There is not enough information given to know if it corresponds to an open file or not. Before you protest that "it's just an int, not a file descriptor", I should point out that they're the same thing. It's pretty common to do something like: for (int fd = 0; fd <= MAX_FD; fd++) { close(fd) } before forking, to make sure all file descriptors are closed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list