Don't want child process inheriting open sockets

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:02:35 -0200, Steven Watanabe  
<Steven.Watanabe at autodesk.com> escribió:

> I'm using subprocess.Popen() to create a child process. The child  
> process is inheriting the parent process' open sockets, but I don't want  
> that. I believe that on Unix systems I could use the FD_CLOEXEC flag,  
> but I'm running Windows. Any suggestions?

You could use the DuplicateHandle Windows API function with  
bInheritHandle=False to create a non inheritable socket handle, then close  
the original one. This should be done for every socket you don't want to  
be inherited.

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Gabriel Genellina