Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I'm not sure. Was reap_children() meant to just reap zombie processes > or wait for all children to finish?
Apparently just to reap zombie processes. At least that was the initial intent. And it's true that we don't really need to collect all children immediately, so perhaps this patch is overkill. > It seems like it was written to just reap zombie processes. Might this > not cause hangs during testing sometimes if a subprocess that was > started has itself hung? Yep. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11616> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
