[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Charles-François Natali added the comment: It's not a bug. so.readlines reads the subprocess' stdout until EOF is encountered, but in the meantime, if it writes a lot to stderr, the corresponding pipe fills up, and the subprocess blocks on the write. You should use Popen's communicate method.

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

802> ___ <!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } --> last time I use - it is still a problem> Subject: [issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up> To: jpsc986...@users.sourceforge.net> From: rep...@bugs.python.org> Date: Sun, 22

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Any Cygwin/Windows people interested in this, or can it be closed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- stage: -> test needed type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-