R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Well, it wouldn't be the first time the microsoft docs were wrong.

There are two questions here: (1) is this behavior consistent across all 
microsoft platforms we support?  (2) is this *change* in behavior of Popen 
acceptable?

For (1) we need a unit test added to the subprocess unit tests that can check 
this.

For (2)...well, I think it would be good for the behavior to be as consistent 
as practical, so I'd be in favor.  We need some second opinions, though, to 
make sure we aren't overlooking some negative consequence.  I'm also not sure 
that this qualifies as a bug fix, so it may only be possible to get it into 
3.2, assuming it is acceptable.

Note that I have not tested your program on Windows myself, I'm taking your 
word for it that it works ;)  I'll be more inclined to test things if the tests 
are in the form of unit tests, which should be much easier to understand than 
your test program.

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