[New-bugs-announce] [issue5570] Bus error when calling .poll() on a closed Connection from multiprocessing.Pipe()

[Allister MacLeod]

New submission from Allister MacLeod <allister.macleod at gmail.com>:

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Mar 26 2009, 14:44:39) 
[GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2
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>>> from multiprocessing import Pipe
>>> a, b = Pipe()
>>> a.close()
>>> a.poll()
Bus error

amacleod at cthulhu:~$ uname -a
Linux cthulhu 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux


I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and just installed Python 2.6.1, compiling
from source.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 84197
nosy: amacleod
severity: normal
status: open
title: Bus error when calling .poll() on a closed Connection from multiprocessing.Pipe()
versions: Python 2.6

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