[issue16458] subprocess.py throw The handle is invalid error on duplicating the STD_INPUT_HANDLE

Karthk Rajagopalan added the comment: Hi Tim, Thanks for your reply. Yes, DuplicateHandle(..) seem to fail if the handle is to a socket under XP SP3. Can you point me to the guidelines about submitting patch so I can merge my change in main branch and upload it? We build python from

[issue16458] subprocess.py throw The handle is invalid error on duplicating the STD_INPUT_HANDLE

Karthk Rajagopalan added the comment: Hi Tim, Thanks for your reply. I added test case using perl and python since it was easy to reproduce using perl socket module and show the issue happening with python's subprocess.py. There is definitely an action required in subprocess.py to catch

[issue16458] subprocess.py throw The handle is invalid error on duplicating the STD_INPUT_HANDLE

New submission from Karthk Rajagopalan: Please download subprocess.zip and extract the archive. Run - perl test.pl you will notice 'invalid handle' error on duplicating STD_INPUT_HANDLE in python. This is observed in Windows XP SP3. Vista SP2 and higher platforms doesn't show this failure