[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Charles-François Natali neolo...@free.fr added the comment: It's not a bug. so.readlines reads the subprocess' stdout until EOF is encountered, but in the meantime, if it writes a lot to stderr, the corresponding pipe fills up, and the subprocess blocks on the write. You should use Popen's

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Any Cygwin/Windows people interested in this, or can it be closed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

John Pham j...@hotmail.com added the comment: last time I use - it is still a problem -- nosy: +jpham Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18611/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1495802

[issue1495802] cygwin: popen3 lock up

Changes by Daniel Diniz aja...@gmail.com: -- stage: - test needed type: - behavior versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1495802 ___