From: Peter Astrand <astrand@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:32:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: On UNIX, when the execution of the child fails, we must waitpid() to
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.1c1~107
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e59063ea95c1204dd28a5ee8c45c6bae4e80de0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

On UNIX, when the execution of the child fails, we must waitpid() to
prevent leaving zombies.
---

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 9e326fbea42c..227ee0e99804 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -985,6 +985,7 @@ class Popen(object):
             data = os.read(errpipe_read, 1048576) # Exceptions limited to 1 MB
             os.close(errpipe_read)
             if data != "":
+                os.waitpid(self.pid, 0)
                 child_exception = pickle.loads(data)
                 raise child_exception