How to close all files between fork and exec?

[Harald Kirsch]

aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> In article <yv27l3upooj.fsf at lionsp093.lion-ag.de>,
> Harald Kirsch  <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote:
> >
> >Python has fork/exec. I want to use it. After fork and before exec I
> >would like the child process to close all files other than 0, 1 and 2
> >(i.e. standard input/output/error). 
> 
> Why not simply keep track of all open files in a dict or list?

Thereby duplicating the work the operating system does anyway? And how
would a module for forking special processes keep track of the files
opened by the main program calling it? Hmm...

  Harald Kirsch.
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