[pygtk] how to close the X connection file descriptor?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

James Henstridge writes:
 > You probably want to set the FD_CLOEXEC fcntl on all file descriptors >= 3
 > (as 0,1,2 are stdin,out and err).  There is a sysconf call to get the
 > maximum file descriptor number, but I don't know if this is available from
 > python.  So except for getting the maximum file descriptor number, the
 > rest can be done with the fcntl and FCNTL modules.

  Check the documentation for os.sysconf(), available as of Python
1.6.


  -Fred

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