subprocess.Popen pipeline bug?
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Thu Mar 13 16:58:07 EDT 2008
bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com:
> Not sure. I think what's happening is that the second cat subprocess
> never gets EOF on its stdin, because there are still processes with an
> open file descriptor for the other end of the pipe.
You are right. However, the close_fds technique seems a bit
heavy-handed. Well, that's what you get when you try to combine fork and
exec into a single call.
Marko
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