On Feb 19, 1:16 pm, Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Created as: http://bugs.python.org/issue5313 I don't see option to assign, so you are on nosy list to start with. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
