[issue2320] Race condition in subprocess using stdin

Gregory P. Smith report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jul 6 09:42:28 CEST 2008


Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:

lowering the priority on this back to normal as there is a workaround:
use close_fds=True.

I agree that this is messy, I'm not sure if we can really fix it or even
if we should.

Running lsof shows the /bin/cat processes on OS X all having a varying
numbers of the same PIPEs open supporting Adam's hypothesis.

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assignee: gregory.p.smith -> 
priority: critical -> normal

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