Lowell Alleman <lowel...@gmail.com> added the comment: I must say that Vinay's findings are most interesting. Thanks Vinay for tracking this down!
Just a thought, but has anybody tried this using the subprocess module? I've glanced through subprocess.py and it certainly does not use os.system(). Instead it uses CreateProcess() on windows and os.execvp*() on all other platforms. It also appears to go to great effort to properly deal with file handles, so I'm wondering if that would resolve this issue. (The current 2.6 docs, state that the subprocess "module is preferable" over the os.system() call, and that "All of the popen*() functions are obsolete. Use the subprocess module.") I'm quite curious to see if my ConcurrentLogHandler will fare any better with this scenario. I would really like for it to be able to handle this scenario, since it's design goals are to be resilient to this type of thing. But I'm relying on the threading system and locks too, so it's hard to say what will happen. Robert, I agree that submitting a new bug on this would be a good idea if none currently exists. I also think it would be good to to put a warning in the docs about this scenario if there is nothing that can be done to correct the situation. Even it if is not Python-specific thing, I think it is good to let people know about gotchas whenever possible. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4749> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
