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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:28:02 +0300
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Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>:

>     os.closerange(fd_low, fd_high)
>     Close all file descriptors from fd_low (inclusive) to fd_high
>     (exclusive), ignoring errors.
>
> Guido's time machine strikes again...

The only problem is that you don't know how high you need to go in
general.


Marko