From: Peter Astrand <astrand@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:38:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: On UNIX, when the execution of the child fails, we must waitpid() to
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~2192
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f791d7a278fed1ff3b12bce5c984e4dc907bca62;p=python

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 da0c31b6c9..5d0c5e668e 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1023,6 +1023,7 @@ 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