[issue39763] distutils.spawn should use subprocess (hang in parallel builds on QNX)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

> Note the original problem stems when you using "setup.py -j <NJOBS>".

setup.py doesn't use multiprocessing. multiprocessing is super complex. Would it be possible to write a reproducer which doesn't use multiprocessing?

> Stack trace: (...)

Can you try to get the Python traceback? Try py-bt command in gdb, or attempt to use faulthandler.dump_traceback_later().

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