always be present (non UNIX dependent)"

stack overflow. But doing this, it always crashes when the stack is nearly full.

Reviewed by Martin von Loewis. Will backport to 2.6.

and certainly not useful for any Windows build.

Fixes #4367

Will backport to 2.6

Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close()  method on file objects with closefd=False.
The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file.
The FileIO  object also got a new readonly attribute closefd.

Approved by Barry

Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch

Fixes #4348
Reviewed by Brett

Will backport to 2.4.

patch from Ziga Seilnacht

that their could be an arbitrary number of values passed in. Turns out the code
did not match that. The code now matches the docs.