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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:31:13 +0200
From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>
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> If you use fork(), it drops all file descriptors, and creates new
> ones - may be then loss the __file__...?
>
I don't think this is the case. He wrote that the process runs for weeks 
without problems, and code using __file__ is being executed all the time.