Program stalls when called via Popen4?

[Ulrich Petri]

"Ulrich Petri" <ulope at gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Joshua Pollak" <joshp at cra.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm writing an autobuild script for internal use at my company. Its
> supposed
> > to check our code out of our source control system, call our build
system,
> > then run our unit tests and email the results to a developer.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working correctly, EXCEPT that the popen2.Popen4
> > instance I'm using to actually build our project never returns. When I
> > 'watch' what the subprocess is doing by using 'ps aux', it seems that it
> > has stalled on the first call to 'echo'! I'm not sure how to debug this
> > because when I try to duplicate the results manually, everything works
> > fine.
> >
> > Here is the relevant code:
> >
> > compileCommand = self.params["SetupCmd"] + " &&
> "+self.params["CompileCmd"]
> > compileProcess =  popen2.Popen4(compileCommand)
> >
>
> Do you read the output of compileProcess?
> If not the buffer of the pipe will fill and then block the child.
>
> You can use something like this:
>
> data = compileProcess.fromchild.read(1)
> while 1:
>     if data == "":
>         ret = compileProcess.poll()
>         if ret != -1:
>             break
>     ret = compileProcess.read(1)
>
>
> Of course you can increase the amount of data to be read at a time (e.g.
> read(100))

Oooops the last line of course has to read:
    data = compileProcess.fromchild.read(1)

Ulrich