[issue37380] subprocess.Popen._cleanup() "The handle is invalid" error when some old process is gone

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:

> The example is just emulating a problem from someone else's code that's closing our handle. Typically this situation occurs because the code is holding onto a handle value for a kernel object (File, Section, Job, Process, Thread, Event, etc) that got closed.

Without accessing private attributes, I don't see how someone can discover the private handle. So for me, it's more a serious bug in an application, no? Blindly closing random handles doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

> The handle value eventually gets reused, such as for our _handle.

That's a side effect on the blindly closing random handles.

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue37380>
_______________________________________