Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net>: > So the strategy you proposed is the right one: have the child process > ignore any possible errors from os.close(). The parent will have an > opportunity to deal with them. > > And now Linux is back in the good graces, only the man page is > misleading.
However, the child process needs to be prepared for os.close() to block indefinitely because of an NFS problem or because SO_LINGER has been specified by the parent, for example. Setting the close-on-exec flag doesn't help there. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
