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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.py10
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 24bf321..4c235d9 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1194,7 +1194,11 @@ 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:
@@ -1240,7 +1244,15 @@ 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 37c4e0f..26adf22 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -778,6 +778,16 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
self.assertStderrEqual(stderr, '')
self.assertEqual(p.wait(), -signal.SIGTERM)
+ def test_wait_when_sigchild_ignored(self):
+ # NOTE: sigchild_ignore.py may not be an effective test on all OSes.
+ sigchild_ignore = test_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)
+
@unittest.skipUnless(mswindows, "Windows specific tests")
class Win32ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2d12879..b49539b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ 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.
+
Extension Modules
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