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>