[Python-Dev] r87010 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/subprocess.rst Lib/subprocess.py Lib/test/test_subprocess.py

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Sun Dec 5 20:21:32 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:08:43 -0800
> "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> > Sleeping on the issue some more and pondering it...
> >
> > Is there any _good_ reason not to just make the close_fds default change
> in
> > 3.2 today?  No warning (since they're never seen by most people anyways).
> >  Document it in Misc/NEWS and whatsnew.rst.
>
> Yes, it will break many scripts under Windows.
> That's the core of the issue, really. I agree under Unix it makes
> sense to change the default.
>

Sorry, yes, I was ignoring windows in the above statement.  I only want the
change in default on unix, windows has different needs.


>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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