[New-bugs-announce] [issue5312] errno not being set

[Benjamin Peterson]

New submission from Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>:

def test_leaking_fds_on_error(self):
        # see bug #5179: Popen leaks file descriptors to PIPEs if
        # the child fails to execute; this will eventually exhaust
        # the maximum number of open fds. 1024 seems a very common
        # value for that limit, but Windows has 2048, so we loop
        # 1024 times (each call leaked two fds).
        for i in range(1024):
            try:
                subprocess.Popen(['nonexisting_i_hope'],
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
            # Windows raises IOError
            except (IOError, OSError) as err:
                self.assertEqual(err.errno, 2) 


This test is failing in py3k because errno is not being set on the
exception and is None. I don't have time to investigate more at the moment.

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messages: 82456
nosy: benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl
priority: high
severity: normal
status: open
title: errno not being set
versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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