Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > The safest default would be fork+exec though we need to implement the > fork+exec code as a C extension module or have it use subprocess (as I > noted in the mb_fork_exec.patch review).
That was an old version of the patch. In the branch http://hg.python.org/sandbox/sbt#spawn _posixsubprocess is used instead of fork+exec, and all unnecessary fds are closed. See http://hg.python.org/sandbox/sbt/file/8f08d83264a0/Lib/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8713> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com