[ python-Bugs-1307798 ] subprocess.Popen locks on Cygwin

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Bugs item #1307798, was opened at 2005-09-29 12:05
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Category: Threads
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jacek Poplawski (jacek_poplawski)
>Assigned to: Peter Åstrand (astrand)
Summary: subprocess.Popen locks on Cygwin

Initial Comment:
I have problem running application with
subprocess.Popen, it happens only on Python from Cygwin
or compiled on Cygwin. It works correctly on Linux,
QNX, and Python from Windows installer, it also works
on one version of Python 2.4.0 from Cygwin.

When I run application with shell=True - everything is
OK, but when I run it without it - Popen locks on data
= os.read(errpipe_read, 1048576). 

Using options stdin, stdout, stderr doesn't help.

I can't reproduce it with any simple application,
application I am running is written in C++, multithreaded. 

$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Sep 29 2005, 10:56:12)
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd
0.125)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.Popen("./application.exe")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line
542, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line
970, in _execute_child
    data = os.read(errpipe_read, 1048576) # Exceptions
limited to 1 MB
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> subprocess.Popen("./application.exe",shell=True)
<subprocess.Popen object at 0x4dd0ec>


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