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-rw-r--r--Lib/subprocess.py16
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/subprocessdata/sigchild_ignore.py6
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py11
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
4 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 0dd55e0..5684d52 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1149,7 +1149,11 @@ class Popen(object):
os.close(errpipe_read)
if data:
- _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
+ try:
+ _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno != errno.ECHILD:
+ raise
child_exception = pickle.loads(data)
for fd in (p2cwrite, c2pread, errread):
if fd is not None:
@@ -1195,7 +1199,15 @@ class Popen(object):
"""Wait for child process to terminate. Returns returncode
attribute."""
if self.returncode is None:
- pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
+ try:
+ pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno != errno.ECHILD:
+ raise
+ # This happens if SIGCLD is set to be ignored or waiting
+ # for child processes has otherwise been disabled for our
+ # process. This child is dead, we can't get the status.
+ sts = 0
self._handle_exitstatus(sts)
return self.returncode
diff --git a/Lib/test/subprocessdata/sigchild_ignore.py b/Lib/test/subprocessdata/sigchild_ignore.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d03303
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/subprocessdata/sigchild_ignore.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import signal, subprocess, sys
+# On Linux this causes os.waitpid to fail with OSError as the OS has already
+# reaped our child process. The wait() passing the OSError on to the caller
+# and causing us to exit with an error is what we are testing against.
+signal.signal(signal.SIGCLD, signal.SIG_IGN)
+subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, '-c', 'print("albatross")']).wait()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 2379b3e..adf00a5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -793,6 +793,17 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
stdout = stdout.rstrip(b'\n\r')
self.assertEqual(stdout, value_repr)
+ def test_wait_when_sigchild_ignored(self):
+ # NOTE: sigchild_ignore.py may not be an effective test on all OSes.
+ sigchild_ignore = support.findfile("sigchild_ignore.py",
+ subdir="subprocessdata")
+ p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, sigchild_ignore],
+ stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+ stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+ self.assertEqual(0, p.returncode, "sigchild_ignore.py exited"
+ " non-zero with this error:\n%s" % stderr)
+
+
#
# Windows tests
#
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0f9a785..058b02a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ Library
- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
+- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
+ OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
+ or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
+
Extensions
----------