On 08/18/2016 10:12 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Unlike Popen.communicate(), subprocess.call() doesn't read from the
> stdout file descriptor. If the child process produces more output than
> fits into the pipe buffer, it will block indefinitely.
> 
> If we don't intend to consume the output, just send it straight to
> /dev/null to avoid this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <si...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <fran...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


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