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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst3
-rw-r--r--Lib/subprocess.py13
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/pythoninfo.py3
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 053fe90..05fb4ff 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -281,8 +281,7 @@ Optimizations
* *close_fds* is false;
* *preexec_fn*, *pass_fds*, *cwd*, *stdin*, *stdout*, *stderr* and
- *start_new_session* parameters are not set;
- * the *executable* path contains a directory.
+ *start_new_session* parameters are not set.
* :func:`shutil.copyfile`, :func:`shutil.copy`, :func:`shutil.copy2`,
:func:`shutil.copytree` and :func:`shutil.move` use platform-specific
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index b94575b..d63cf20 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ def _use_posix_spawn():
_USE_POSIX_SPAWN = _use_posix_spawn()
+_HAVE_POSIX_SPAWNP = hasattr(os, 'posix_spawnp')
class Popen(object):
@@ -1442,7 +1443,10 @@ class Popen(object):
def _posix_spawn(self, args, executable, env, restore_signals):
- """Execute program using os.posix_spawn()."""
+ """Execute program using os.posix_spawnp().
+
+ Or use os.posix_spawn() if os.posix_spawnp() is not available.
+ """
if env is None:
env = os.environ
@@ -1456,7 +1460,10 @@ class Popen(object):
sigset.append(signum)
kwargs['setsigdef'] = sigset
- self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs)
+ if _HAVE_POSIX_SPAWNP:
+ self.pid = os.posix_spawnp(executable, args, env, **kwargs)
+ else:
+ self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs)
def _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
pass_fds, cwd, env,
@@ -1484,7 +1491,7 @@ class Popen(object):
executable = args[0]
if (_USE_POSIX_SPAWN
- and os.path.dirname(executable)
+ and (_HAVE_POSIX_SPAWNP or os.path.dirname(executable))
and preexec_fn is None
and not close_fds
and not pass_fds
diff --git a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
index 7e94a31..93d87be 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ def collect_get_config(info_add):
def collect_subprocess(info_add):
import subprocess
- copy_attributes(info_add, subprocess, 'subprocess.%s', ('_USE_POSIX_SPAWN',))
+ attrs = ('_USE_POSIX_SPAWN', '_HAVE_POSIX_SPAWNP')
+ copy_attributes(info_add, subprocess, 'subprocess.%s', attrs)
def collect_info(info):