Passing file descriptors in Python?

[nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca]

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 02:12:28AM +0000, Dan wrote:
> Has anyone attempted to pass file descriptors from one process to
> another under using Python on Linux?  I want to build a little web
> server that accepts connections and hands them off to child processes
> exactly like Apache does.

I don't know too much about how apache works but fork works just
fine with Python:

>>> import os
>>> f = open('foo', 'w')
>>> if os.fork() == 0:
...     print 'child', f.fileno()
... else:
...     print 'parent', f.fileno()
... 
parent 3
child 3