commit 1b90efbdc5bb204fe50aea87374603dcba309227
author Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> Tue Jun 30 17:11:52 2009 +0000
committer Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> Tue Jun 30 17:11:52 2009 +0000
tree 42a36dca54321c6caf5e9ca488bdc1be1988b9d2
parent 0c9eb431491387fc68940e2b24dc873f3147e0c8

Resolves issues 5155, 5313, 5331 - bad file descriptor error with processes in processes

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