Bugs item #1220113, was opened at 2005-06-14 00:04 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by rhettinger You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1220113&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Stuart Bishop (zenzen) >Assigned to: Peter Åstrand (astrand) Summary: subprocess call() helper should close stdin if PIPE Initial Comment: The following code snippet should die instead of hang. >>> from subprocess import call, PIPE >>> rv = call(['/usr/bin/bzip2', '-c'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) It makes no sense not to close stdin if it is PIPE because the stream cannot be accessed. The use case for this is ensuring a subprocess that detects if it is connected to a terminal or not runs in 'batch' mode, and that it will die instead of hang if it unexpectidly attempts to read from stdin. Workaround is to use Popen instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1220113&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
