[issue37951] Disallow fork in a subinterpreter broke subprocesses in mod_wsgi daemon mode

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

It's a bit more complicated. FreeIPA uses cryptography, which uses asn1crypto, which uses ctypes, which is broken in mod_wsgi due to bpo-34651. It's not just FreeIPA that is affected by the issue. Any application running in mod_wsgi is potentially affected and broken by bpo-34651.

1a) (modify FreeIPA) is not possible. IPA requires the additional features of the subprocess module.
1b) (modify ctypes) should be done in a separate ticket. I'm not sure why subprocess does not use posix_spawn() here. I guess it's the default value "close_fds=True"?
2) (avoid subinterpreters) would require a rewrite of mod_wsgi
3) (revert bpo-34651) is IMHO required for _posixsubprocess.fork_exec().

bpo-34651 is a backwards incompatible change that breaks existing applications that uses mod_wsgi. At least _posixsubprocess.fork_exec() should be reverted and the removal of fork() support should go through a proper deprecation cycle of two releases.

I'm bumping this up to release blocker and CC Łukasz.

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nosy: +lukasz.langa
priority: critical -> release blocker

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