[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2010-03-08 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Gregory, Awesome! Approx. how long until we hear back from you in this report? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1731

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2010-03-08 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: By the way, in three months from today, this bug will be 3 years old. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1731

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2010-03-08 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Ben Finney's comment suggests to me that this bug is being ignored. Am I wrong? "with extra notes in the documentation that anyone using child processes needs to be wary of signal handling." Why should they be wary? We should ju

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2010-03-08 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9a853d0308c8e55a "I'm also glad to see a test case that causes exactly the same error with or without the presence of a ‘daemon.DaemonContext’. Further research shows that handling of ‘S

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2010-03-08 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Florent, Have you tested any of the sample test programs mentioned in this bug report? For example, the one by Joel Martin (kanaka). I'd suggest to test those first before marking this issue as fixed. - Yonas -- status: pending -&

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2009-05-31 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: I'm assuming that exim4 is reading config files from /etc/exim4/conf.d/*. To make sure, you can enforce "split file mode" by running `sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`. It should be one of the last questions

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2009-05-31 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Also, copy exim_local_scan2.py to /usr/lib/python2.6/ -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14134/exim_local_scan2.py ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1731

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2009-05-31 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: To test with exim4 is easy. To reproduce on Ubuntu Jaunty: 1. apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy 2. echo "local_scan = /usr/lib/exim4/local_scan/libpyexim.so" > /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/15_py-exim_plugin_path 3. cd /usr/lib/exim4/local_scan 4. Compile

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Changes by Yonas : -- versions: +Python 2.5, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6122> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Here's another test, taken from the docs: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess-replacements: This is slightly better than Popen because the program executes and shows output, but worse than os.system(), because it still shows the

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: os.system() works: os.system("echo `date` >> /tmp/myfile") r...@yonas-laptop:/usr/lib/exim4/local_scan# cat /tmp/myfile Wed May 27 16:04:54 EDT 2009 Wed May 27 16:04:54 EDT 2009 -- ___ Pytho

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Could this be a permissions issue? I have no idea how permissions would effect it, though... r...@yonas-laptop:/usr/lib/exim4/local_scan# ls -la /usr/sbin/exim4 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 824440 2009-02-11 08:53 /usr/sbin/exim4

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: I didn't find anything unusual about how exim uses dlopen, but if you want to see the code, it's here: http://pastebin.com/m52398b30 Line 166 is the actual call. Again, no problems except with Pyth

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Thanks for testing, it works when running ./main, but not when run through exim. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: The test doesn't fail when run directly from ./main, but it fails when run from exim4 mail server. exim will dlopen() mylib and run local_scan(). Besides using Popen, I haven't had any problems. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org

[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
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[issue6122] OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
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[issue6122] [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
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[issue6122] [Errno 10] No child processes

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
New submission from Yonas : I always get a subprocess error when using embedded Python 2.6.2: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1123, in wait: pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, 0): OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes Sample library and main files attached. --

[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
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[issue1731717] race condition in subprocess module

2009-05-27 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: I always get a subprocess error when using embedded python 2.6.2: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1123, in wait: pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, 0): OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes Example library and main program ar

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: rb's workaround works, though. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4434> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Updated log file. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14034/log-main.txt ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Changes by Yonas : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file14033/log-main.txt ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4434> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Here's my log file (`LD_DEBUG=all ./main`) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14033/log-main.txt ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Same error message: import dl: ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/dl.so: undefined symbol: PyExc_ValueError -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

2009-05-21 Thread Yonas
Yonas added the comment: Ralf, Linking against the static library (with '-Xlinker -export-dynamic') did _not_ solve the problem for me. gcc `python2.6-config --cflags` -c -fPIC mylib.c -o mylib.o -Xlinker -export-dynamic gcc -Xlinker -export-dynamic -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lz -