On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why is the multiprocessing module, ie., multiprocessing/process.py, in > _bootstrap() doing: > > os.close(sys.stdin.fileno()) > > rather than: > > sys.stdin.close() > > Technically it is feasible that stdin could have been replaced with > something other than a file object, where the replacement doesn't have > a fileno() method. > > In that sort of situation an AttributeError would be raised, which > isn't going to be caught as either OSError or ValueError, which is all > the code watches out for. > > Graham > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I don't know why it was implemented that way. File an issue on the tracker and assign it to me (jnoller) please. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
