Using --enable-special-filenames on Windows

[LRN]

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On 27.11.2013 14:29, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:45 LRN said:
> 
>> Isn't it easier to create all handles as non-inheritable (or make
>> them non-inheritable immediately after creation), and then just
>> make specific handles inheritable when you spawn a child
>> process?
> 
> You can't do that in a library because you can't enforce such a
> policy on the actual application and other used libraries.

You can make it part of the API: "All objects are uninheritable by
default (non-inheritable on W32, close-on-fork on other platforms)"
and provide platform-abstracted API to override that rule (depends on
how the objects are used, and by whom).
Just a thought.

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