[issue40078] asyncio subprocesses allow pids to be reaped, different behavior than regular subprocesses

Carl Lewin added the comment: Very first time engaging in such a forum. Apologies is advance if I am doing it wrong! Observation: ps -ef shows "Defunct" process until calling script terminates Scenario: equivalent test scripts in BASH, Python 2.7 and 3.6 that: 1. Start a ping 2. SIGTERM (kil

[issue40078] asyncio subprocesses allow pids to be reaped, different behavior than regular subprocesses

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[issue40078] asyncio subprocesses allow pids to be reaped, different behavior than regular subprocesses

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[issue40078] asyncio subprocesses allow pids to be reaped, different behavior than regular subprocesses

New submission from Justin Lebar : >From https://bugs.python.org/issue1187312 about regular subprocesses: > So as long as the application keeps a reference to the > subprocess object, it can wait for it; auto-reaping only > starts when the last reference was dropped [in Popen.__del__]. asyncio