os.wait() losing child?

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Jason Zheng  <Xin.Zheng at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> Actually, it's not that bad.  _cleanup only polls the instances that
>> are no longer referenced by user code, but still running.  If you hang
>> on to Popen instances, they won't be added to _active, and __init__
>> won't reap them (_active is only populated from Popen.__del__).

> Perhaps that's the difference between Python 2.4 and 2.5. In 2.4, 
> Popen's __init__ always appends self to _active:

Yes, that changed between 2.4 and 2.5.

Note that if you take a copy of 2.5's subprocess.py, it ought to work
fine with 2.4.

-M-