[issue10963] "subprocess" can raise OSError (EPIPE) when communicating with short-lived processes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> It could be argued that this is incorrect, as it masks under-reads of
> stdin by the subprocess.  However I believe a sanely-written subprocess 
> ought to indicate success/failure back with its return code.

It seems quite orthogonal. The subprocess could have terminated successfully while not all of the stdin bytes were consumed; EPIPE informs you of the latter.

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