Subprocess troubles from a daemon

Eiríkur Hjartarson Eirikur.Hjartarson at decode.is
Fri Apr 13 11:26:01 EDT 2012


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-bounces+eirikur.hjartarson=decode.is at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-bounces+eirikur.hjartarson=decode.is at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Terry Reedy
> Sent: 13. apríl 2012 14:57
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Subprocess troubles from a daemon
> 
> On 4/13/2012 7:04 AM, Eiríkur Hjartarson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I have possibly found a bug in the subprocess module.  The
> > (potential) bug appears when executing a subprocess from a daemon
> > (after double-forking).  This is on RHEL 6.2 with python version
> > 2.6.6.
> 
> What happens is you use the new 2.7.3 release? It has hundreds of bug
> fixes not in 2.6.x.

I don't have access to 2.7.3-python, but I tried it on 2.7.2, and there the bug is fixed.

> --
> Terry Jan Reedy

Thanks,
-- 
Eiríkur Hjartarson
deCODE genetics
Sturlugötu 7
IS-101 Reykjavík


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