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-rw-r--r--Lib/subprocess.py5
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py21
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/_posixsubprocess.c6
4 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 88355ad..f717c82 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1361,7 +1361,10 @@ class Popen(object):
executable_list = tuple(
os.path.join(os.fsencode(dir), executable)
for dir in os.get_exec_path(env))
- fds_to_keep = set(pass_fds)
+ # Never close stdin, stdout and stderr for the child.
+ fds_to_keep = {0,1,2}
+ fds_to_keep.update(pass_fds)
+ # Our child uses this one to signal error before exec().
fds_to_keep.add(errpipe_write)
self.pid = _posixsubprocess.fork_exec(
args, executable_list,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 54f6482..46e012d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1559,6 +1559,27 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
# all standard fds closed.
self.check_close_std_fds([0, 1, 2])
+ def test_small_errpipe_write_fd(self):
+ """Issue #15798: Popen should work when stdio fds are available."""
+ new_stdin = os.dup(0)
+ new_stdout = os.dup(1)
+ try:
+ os.close(0)
+ os.close(1)
+
+ # Side test: if errpipe_write fails to have its CLOEXEC
+ # flag set this should cause the parent to think the exec
+ # failed. Extremely unlikely: everyone supports CLOEXEC.
+ subprocess.Popen([
+ sys.executable, "-c",
+ "print('AssertionError:0:CLOEXEC failure.')"]).wait()
+ finally:
+ # Restore original stdin and stdout
+ os.dup2(new_stdin, 0)
+ os.dup2(new_stdout, 1)
+ os.close(new_stdin)
+ os.close(new_stdout)
+
def test_remapping_std_fds(self):
# open up some temporary files
temps = [mkstemp() for i in range(3)]
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7bfce3f..7308f89 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file
+ descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed.
+
- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching.
- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array()
diff --git a/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c b/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
index a2d7022..fefd899 100644
--- a/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
+++ b/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ child_exec(char *const exec_array[],
local_max_fd = max_fd;
#endif
/* TODO HP-UX could use pstat_getproc() if anyone cares about it. */
- _close_open_fd_range(3, local_max_fd, py_fds_to_keep);
+ _close_open_fd_range(0, local_max_fd, py_fds_to_keep);
}
/* This loop matches the Lib/os.py _execvpe()'s PATH search when */
@@ -535,10 +535,6 @@ subprocess_fork_exec(PyObject* self, PyObject *args)
&restore_signals, &call_setsid, &preexec_fn))
return NULL;
- if (close_fds && errpipe_write < 3) { /* precondition */
- PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "errpipe_write must be >= 3");
- return NULL;
- }
if (PySequence_Length(py_fds_to_keep) < 0) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "cannot get length of fds_to_keep");
return NULL;