Python | os.set_inheritable() method
OS module in Python provides functions for interacting with the operating system. OS comes under Python’s standard utility modules. This module provides a portable way of using operating system dependent functionality.
os.set_inheritable()
method in Python is used to set the value of inheritable flag of the specified file descriptor.
Inheritable flag of a file descriptor tells that if it can be inherited by the child processes or not. For example: if the parent process has a file descriptor 4 in use for a particular file and parent creates a child process then the child process will also have file descriptor 4 in use for that same file, if the inheritable flag of the file descriptor 4 in the parent process is set.
Syntax: os.set_inheritable(fd, inheritable)
Parameter:
fd: A file descriptor whose inheritable flag is to be set.
inheritable: An integer or a Boolean value representing the new value of inheritable flag.
Return Type: This method does not return any value.
Code: Use of os.set_inheritable() method to set the “inheritable” flag of the given file descriptor.
import os
path = "/home/ihritik/Desktop/file.txt"
fd = os. open (path, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)
print ( "Current value of inheritable flag:" , os.get_inheritable(fd))
inheritable = True
os.set_inheritable(fd, inheritable)
print ( "Inheritable flag modified" )
print ( "Current value of inheritable flag:" , os.get_inheritable(fd))
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Output:
Current value of inheritable flag: False
Inheritable flag modified
Current value of inheritable flag: True
Last Updated :
25 Jun, 2019
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