srinivasan srinivas wrote: > Hi, > Does subprocess.Popen() count a new open file for each suprocess? I mean > does it occupy an entry in file descriptor table of parent process? If so, > wat is each file descriptor connected to?
Usually, each new process has three file-descriptors associated with it - stdin,stdout and stderr. So when you span a process, the overall count of FDs should increase by three. Additionally, there are more FDs created if you chose to pipe communication between the child-process and the parent. This is a unix-thing btw, nothing to do with subprocess per se. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
