STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

> This is an issue when the standard handles are inherited or duplicated to a 
> grandchild process, and so on. In the case of Popen(sys.executable), the 
> system is duplicating the standard handles implicitly because sys.executable 
> is a console process (assuming it's python[_d].exe), among other criteria. An 
> additional reference on the write side prevents the pipe from closing. 
> fh.read() in the grandparent won't return as long as there's a writer that 
> could potentially write more data.

Is there a way to workaround that?

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