[issue5673] Add timeout option to subprocess.Popen

[Reid Kleckner]

Reid Kleckner <rnk at mit.edu> added the comment:

I went through the trouble of building and testing Python on Windows Vista, and with some small modifications I got the tests I added to pass.

Here's an updated patch.  I'm still not really sure how those threads work on Windows, so I'd rather leave that TODO in until someone with Windows expertise checks it.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17994/subprocess-timeout-v4.patch

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