[issue37424] subprocess.run timeout does not function if shell=True and capture_output=True

New submission from haizaar : Consider the following: subprocess.run('sleep 10', shell=True, timeout=.1, capture_output=True) It should raise after 0.1 seconds, but it does not - it waits 10 seconds till sleep finishes and only then raises "subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Com

[issue37424] subprocess.run timeout does not function if shell=True and capture_output=True

haizaar added the comment: Thanks for looking at it. My original code had "tar" running, which is a child of the shell as well... I assume running exec in the shell may help somewhat, but not a cure obviously. I'm all for killing the process group. "Run something and get

[issue26534] subprocess.check_output with shell=True ignores the timeout

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[issue30154] subprocess.run with stderr connected to a pipe won't timeout when killing a never-ending shell commanad

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[issue5115] Extend subprocess.kill to be able to kill process groups

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