Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	2015-05-20 12:30 -0600
Subject	Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com
>> <mailto:rosuav@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Linux (and possibly some other Unixes), /proc/self/fd may be of
>>     use.
>
>
> On MacOSX, /dev/fd seems to be the equivalent of this.

Not a perfect equivalent. On Linux, ls -lF /proc/self/fd shows the
contents as symlinks, which is handy since you can just read the links
to see what they're pointing to. On OSX, ls -lF /dev/fd shows three
ttys and two directories.

Though I also note that on my Ubuntu Trusty system, /dev/fd is itself
a symlink to /proc/self/fd.

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Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-19 09:31 -0500
  Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-20 13:10 +1200
    Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-20 12:30 -0600

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