[New-bugs-announce] [issue2113] Bad interaction between signal and subprocess

[Daniele Varrazzo]

New submission from Daniele Varrazzo:

During Popen.communicate(), if a signal is caught during the select(),
an unhandled exception is raised, and the output gathered is lost.

This means that a long running or hanged process can't be killed after a
timeout (as shown in the attached example, where the output collected
before the signal is valuable)

The bug happens only when stdout and stderr are not merged and is tested
on linux platform.

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files: subprocess_signal_bug.py
messages: 62392
nosy: piro
severity: normal
status: open
title: Bad interaction between signal and subprocess
type: crash
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9431/subprocess_signal_bug.py

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