Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > Well, perhaps we can special-case builtins not to be "wiped" at shutdown. > However, there is another problem here in that the Popen object survives > until the builtins module is wiped. This should be investigated too.
Maybe it is because it uses the evil resuscitate-in-__del__ trick. I presume that if the child process survives during shutdown, then the popen object is guaranteed to survive too. We could get rid of the trick: * On Windows __del__ is unneeded since we don't need to reap zombie processes. * On Unix __del__ could just add self._pid (rather than self) to the list _active. _cleanup() would then use os.waitpid() to check the pids in _active. The hardest thing about making such a change is that test_subprocess currently uses _active. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
