Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak

resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
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Charles-François Natali 2011-08-18 18:49:39 +02:00
parent 5ad517a7d9
commit 134a8baed9
3 changed files with 69 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -429,12 +429,16 @@ try:
except:
MAXFD = 256
# This lists holds Popen instances for which the underlying process had not
# exited at the time its __del__ method got called: those processes are wait()ed
# for synchronously from _cleanup() when a new Popen object is created, to avoid
# zombie processes.
_active = []
def _cleanup():
for inst in _active[:]:
res = inst._internal_poll(_deadstate=sys.maxsize)
if res is not None and res >= 0:
if res is not None:
try:
_active.remove(inst)
except ValueError:
@ -1191,6 +1195,7 @@ class Popen(object):
errread, errwrite,
errpipe_read, errpipe_write,
restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn)
self._child_created = True
else:
# Pure Python implementation: It is not thread safe.
# This implementation may deadlock in the child if your