Windows service and pyc files

[Laszlo Nagy]

> With a bit of guessing, I think I've found what's happening.
> Since you don't provide a value for stdin, None is used. Inside  
> subprocess.py, method _get_handles, line 670, GetStdHandle *may* return  
> None; in that case _make_inheritable fails.
> If you print the value of p2cread in line 670 I bet you'll get None.
> The fix is to test for None in _make_inheritable (line 720):
>
> 	if handle is not None:
> 		return DuplicateHandle(...)
>
> (else return None, implicit)
>
>   
>> When I call spawn() from an application, it works just fine. Any ideas?
>>     
>
> According to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683231.aspx  
> GetStdHandle may return NULL (translated to None in Python) when invoked  
>  from a service with no redirected standard handles. From an application,  
> there is no problem.
>
> Please try the simple fix above to comfirm it works; I'll submit a patch  
> if that's the case.
>   
Yes, it fixed the problem. Please submit the patch. Thank you!

   Laszlo