Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

> If the result of os.read() was stored in a Python daemon thread, the 
> memory should be released since the following changeset. Can someone 
> check if this issue still exist?

If a daemon thread is killed while it is blocking on os.read() then the bytes 
object used as the read buffer will never be decrefed.

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nosy: +sbt

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