[New-bugs-announce] [issue5179] subprocess leaves open fds on construction error

[Georg Brandl]

New submission from Georg Brandl <georg at python.org>:

The test case below will (on Linux here) eventually quit with "OSError:
[Errno 24] Too many open files".  I assume that some additional cleaning
up is in order.

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from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

while 1:
    try:
        Popen(['nonexisting'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    except OSError, err:
        if err.errno != 2:  # ignore "no such file"
            raise

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 81347
nosy: georg.brandl
priority: high
severity: normal
status: open
title: subprocess leaves open fds on construction error
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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