[New-bugs-announce] [issue3120] subprocess module truncates handles on AMD64

[Roger Upole]

New submission from Roger Upole <rupole at hotmail.com>:

HANDLEs are pointer sized values, but there are several places in
_subprocess.c where it assumes they are the same size as longs
which are still 4 bytes on win64.

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components: Windows
messages: 68263
nosy: rupole
severity: normal
status: open
title: subprocess module truncates handles on AMD64
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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