Bugs item #1183780, was opened at 2005-04-15 14:27
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Category: Python Library
>Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Taale Skogan (tskogan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Popen4 wait() fails sporadically with threads
Initial Comment:
Calling wait() on a popen2.Popen4 object fails
intermittently with the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/popen2.py", line 90, in wait
pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, 0)
OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes
when using threads.
The problem seems to be a race condition when a thread
calls wait() on a popen2.Popen4 object. This also apllies
to Popen3 objects.
The constructor of Popen4. calls _cleanup() which calls
poll() which calls the system call waitpid() for all acitve
child processes. If another thread calls poll() before the
current thread calls wait() on it's child process and the
child process has terminated, the child process is no
longer waitable and the second call to wait() fails.
Code to replicate this behavoir is attached in popen_bug.
py.
Solution: Popen4 and Popen3 should be threadsafe.
Related modules: A seemingly related error occurs with
Popen from the new subprocess module. Use the -s
option in the popen_bug.py script to test this.
Tested on Linux RedHat Enterprise 3 for Python 2.3.3,
Python 2.3.5 and Python 2.4.1 and Solaris for Python 2.
4.1. The error did not occur on a RedHat 7.3 machine
with Python 2.3.5. See the attached file popen_bug.py for
details on the platforms.
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