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The "fix" also has a bug - `preexec_fn` causes nasal demons if the current process has threads. Fortunately, Python 3.2 added the `restore_signals` argument fo

by o11c 3y ago

The "fix" also has a bug - `preexec_fn` causes nasal demons if the current process has threads. Fortunately, Python 3.2 added the `restore_signals` argument for exactly this purpose, and it is enabled by default. The (2010) in the title is quite relevant.

interroboink 3y ago
Though from the bug report, the fix did not make it into Python 2.7 ... still being used some places today — by other people, not me (: There is a backport fixed version though: https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-subprocess32/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-subprocess32/