From db1191ec0e7305d684383f8974e2fa437f77ad5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mo khan <mo@mokhan.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:20:13 -0600
Subject: initial commit

---
 code/snippets/exec_python.rb | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 code/snippets/exec_python.rb

(limited to 'code/snippets/exec_python.rb')

diff --git a/code/snippets/exec_python.rb b/code/snippets/exec_python.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b60d0b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/code/snippets/exec_python.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+hosts = File.open('/etc/hosts')
+
+python_code = %Q[import os; print os.fdopen(#{hosts.fileno}).read()]
+
+# The hash as the last arguments maps any file descriptors that should 
+# stay open through the exec.
+exec 'python', '-c', python_code, {hosts.fileno => hosts}
+
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