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Author vstinner
Recipients Arfrever, DLitz, aliles, amaury.forgeotdarc, asvetlov, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, grahamd, gregory.p.smith, jcea, lemburg, neologix, pitrou, sbt, twouters, vstinner
Date 2013-10-21.13:51:36
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"now that FDs are non-inheritable by default, fork locks around
subprocess and multiprocessing shouldn't be necessary anymore? What
other use cases does the fork-lock have?"

Well, on Windows, it's still not possible to inherit only one handle. If you mark temporary the handle as inheritable (os.set_handle_inheritable), it might be inherited by a diffrent child process if another Python thread spawn a process... It's probably unlikely, so it's one of the use case of such lock :-)
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2013-10-21 13:51:36vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, lemburg, twouters, georg.brandl, gregory.p.smith, jcea, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, christian.heimes, grahamd, Arfrever, asvetlov, neologix, sbt, aliles, DLitz
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