[3.14] gh-142302: Fix mkstemp() documentation: clarify file descriptor inheritance behavior (GH-142338) #143486
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… inheritance behavior (pythonGH-142338) The documentation incorrectly stated that the file descriptor is not inherited by child processes. In reality, the close-on-exec flag (when available) only prevents inheritance across exec() calls, not fork(). (cherry picked from commit e79c9b7) Co-authored-by: ADITYA RAI <adi.hack1234@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
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The documentation incorrectly stated that the file descriptor is not
inherited by child processes. In reality, the close-on-exec flag (when
available) only prevents inheritance across exec() calls, not fork().
(cherry picked from commit e79c9b7)
Co-authored-by: ADITYA RAI adi.hack1234@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner vstinner@python.org
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