Re: pkg/51657: Python (2.7): interpreter hangs on exit after a call to subproccess.Popen()

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51657; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51657: Python (2.7): interpreter hangs on exit after a call
 to subproccess.Popen()
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:17:31 +0000

 On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 02:10:00PM +0000, oskar.skog.finland%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
  > If subprocess.Popen() has ever been called, the interpreter will
  > hang after the program has terminated (ie. at EOF, sys.exit() or
  > quit()).
 
 (a) is this a Python bug? (e.g. does it happen on other OSes?)
 
 (b) what does ps -l show for the hanging process?
 
 (c) if you run the script with ktrace, what are the last few things
 that appear when you run kdump to show the trace?
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost