[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

STINNER Victor added the comment: Python 3.6 was released 5 years ago. Nobody complained about ResourceWarning. While it would be nice to fix the issue, nobody managed to write a fix in 5 years and this issue has no activity for 3 years. I close the issue. -- resolution: -> out of d

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

Change by kernc : -- nosy: +kernc versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

Martin Panter added the comment: It does look similar. They probably could be merged. The main difference is in Issue 5993 Eivind suggested to somehow use a “wait” system call, while here Victor suggested “fork” (perhaps to orphan a grandchild process?). -- __

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Isn't this a duplicate of issue5993? -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

Brendan Donegan added the comment: This appears to be Firefox specific? At least: b = webbrowser.get("chromium-browser") b.open("https://bugs.python.org/issue26741";) returns simply: True With no exception -- nosy: +brendan-donegan ___ Python trac

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

Martin Panter added the comment: I think the Firefox command will exit immediately if it just signals an existing Firefox process and window, but becomes the main Firefox process if there isn’t already one running. Background = False sounds like it won’t help. Don’t we want the opposite?

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

STINNER Victor added the comment: I checked how "xdg-open http://www.python.org/"; works. It looks like the command works as webbrowser: create a child process "firefox URL", but then it waits until the command completes. In fact, "firefox URL" exits quickly. So we can try "background = False"

[issue27069] webbrowser creates zombi processes in the background mode

New submission from STINNER Victor: The webbrowser opens almost all browsers in background mode, it looks like only Elinks is not opened in this mode. Problem: the webbrowser doesn't read the exit status of the browser, and so create zombi process. On Python 3.6, the subprocess module now emit