Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Le 01/10/2017 à 23:33, Daniel Colascione a écrit : > > Huh? Both are very generic.
"Specialized" as in "I didn't expect anyone would want to do such a thing in pure Python". > SCM_RIGHTS is "specialized" > and not supported on all systems, yet it's in stdlib. Because passing fds between processes was considered useful enough (it's actually used by multiprocessing itself, for example to implement the forkserver model). And regardless, trying to point to other (more or less exotic) features of the stdlib is not a convincing argument to add a new feature. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31654> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com