[New-bugs-announce] [issue15408] os.fork/os.popen behaviour change between 2.7 and 3.2

[Walter Dörwald]

New submission from Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de>:

The attached script behaves differently on Python 2.7.2 and Python 3.2.3.

With Python 2.7 the script runs for ca. 30 seconds and then I get back my prompt.

With Python 3.2 the script runs in the background, I get back my prompt immediately and can type shell commands.

Commenting out the call to uname() changes the behaviour of the script on Python 3.2 so that it behaves like on Python 2.7.

(This happens on both Max OS X 10.7 and Linux.)

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files: gurk.py
messages: 165942
nosy: doerwalter
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.fork/os.popen behaviour change between 2.7 and 3.2
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26456/gurk.py

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