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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2003-10-06 21:34:33 +0000
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2003-10-06 21:34:33 +0000
commit01217f67ed78582ed053e5c78a6d36f02c60478d (patch)
tree916168f3d100a4349e5b2e1fa1171c96e1a5184a /Lib/popen2.py
parent0e07560b70817d63acc1909dc3516d07278e38b5 (diff)
downloadcpython-01217f67ed78582ed053e5c78a6d36f02c60478d.tar.gz
Patch #817329: Use SC_OPEN_MAX to determine MAXFD. Backported to 2.3.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/popen2.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/popen2.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/popen2.py b/Lib/popen2.py
index e8fff06e0b..ebb4ef6526 100644
--- a/Lib/popen2.py
+++ b/Lib/popen2.py
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ import sys
__all__ = ["popen2", "popen3", "popen4"]
-MAXFD = 256 # Max number of file descriptors (os.getdtablesize()???)
+try:
+ MAXFD = os.sysconf('SC_OPEN_MAX')
+except (AttributeError, ValueError):
+ MAXFD = 256
_active = []