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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/popen2.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/popen2.py | 5 |
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 = [] |