Christian Heimes added the comment: Guido van Rossum wrote: > Why not simply reverse the wait() and read() calls?
I don't think it is sufficient if the user uses more than one pipe. The subprocess.communicate() and _communicate() methods are using threads (Windows) or select (Unix) when multiple pipes for stdin, stderr and stderr are involved. The only safe way with multiple pipes is communicate([input]) unless the process returns *lots* of data. The subprocess module is buffering the data in memory if the user uses PIPE or STDIN. The subprocess module also contains a XXX comment in the unix version of _communicate() # XXX Rewrite these to use non-blocking I/O on the # file objects; they are no longer using C stdio! Should I create another bug entry for it? Christian __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1606> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
