Benjamin Peterson added the comment:
Yeah, this is WONTFIX particularly since you can have the Python3
implementation in Python 2 easily with https://pypi.org/project/subprocess32/.
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nosy: +benjamin.peterson
resolution: -> wont fix
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
Josh Rosenberg added the comment:
Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure 2.7 isn't making
changes unless they fix critical or security-related bugs.
The code here is suboptimal, but it's already been fixed in Python 3 (in
#8052), as part of a C accelerator module (that
New submission from Kirill Kolyshkin :
In case close_fds=True is passed to subprocess.Popen()
or its users (subprocess.call() etc), it might spend
some considerable time closing non-opened file descriptors,
as demonstrated by the following snippet from strace:
close(3)=
