david <db.pub.m...@gmail.com> added the comment:

>From my reading of the code it may be possible if I execute a command via 
>Popen that the child had output that went to stderror, because stderror is 
>associated with the fd of errpipe_write, and it was not to be 'trusted' (lets 
>say I ran it as another user) then it could be pickle.loaded in the parent - 
>and this could potentially be bad.

I could be totally wrong about this tho. I haven't tested the above case yet. 

Regardless - the use of pickle here is not really required and json can do what 
pickle is doing (from my reading of the code thus far).

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