commit 17438dc26cb4776ce6aecd4eccf83376f4a5f56c
author R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Tue Jul 21 17:02:14 2009 +0000
committer R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Tue Jul 21 17:02:14 2009 +0000
tree 281fff473e1b5b23afe2bbee6f9cd3f87316f6dc
parent f37b563c72d53da8e9137f0c6846da2e3f700030

Merged revisions 73708,73738 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r73708 | jesse.noller | 2009-06-30 13:11:52 -0400 (Tue, 30 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Resolves issues 5155, 5313, 5331 - bad file descriptor error with processes in processes
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  r73738 | r.david.murray | 2009-06-30 22:49:10 -0400 (Tue, 30 Jun 2009) | 2 lines

  Make punctuation prettier and break up run-on sentence.
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Lib/multiprocessing/process.py

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
index b034317..0b04e36 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@
             self._children = set()
             self._counter = itertools.count(1)
             try:
-                os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())
+                sys.stdin.close()
+                sys.stdin = open(os.devnull)
             except (OSError, ValueError):
                 pass
             _current_process = self