[issue38630] subprocess.Popen.send_signal() should poll the process

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

> It sounds like there's actually nothing to do here? (Except maybe eventually switch to pidfd or similar, but Victor says he wants to use a different issue for that.) Can this be closed?

I opened this issue to propose PR 16984. Did you notice the PR?

In short, I propose to call poll() before calling os.kill() in send_signal().

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