sys._exit()

[David Bolen]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

> I am not clear on what you mean here.  Your parenthetic observation
> about fork and pipe is right, but I would say it shows that the parent
> is safe from the child:  "using the other set of handles" means each
> reads from the descriptors closed by the other - which obviously didn't
> make the descriptors invalid!  A fork certainly can't close anything
> in its parent.

Yeah, you're right - must have been a brain spasm.  Descriptors are in
fact duplicated in a fork, and not just blindly copied.

(Makes me begin to be concerned that I've been stuck in Windows land
 too long)

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