poll() swallows all IOErrors, including ENOCHILD;  if
the child process exits before poll is called, then an
applications which loops on
poll() will never exit.

I am working around this (against Python 2.3.3) via the
following:


                try:
                    pid, status = os.waitpid(proc.pid,
os.WNOHANG)
                except os.error, e:
                    if e.errno == 10:  # ENOCHILD
                        result = 0
                    else:
                        raise
                else:
                    if pid == proc.pid:
                        result = status


where 'proc' is an instance of Popen3.

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I believe this is basically a duplicate of 1183780.  There
is a patch attached there.  Can you verify if it fixes your
problem?

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1183780 is indeed a similar bug, although he reports it
against Popen4 rather than Popen3.  His patch needs to be
modified to re-raise errors which are not ENOCHILD, however.

I no longer have accees to either the application or the
machine where I found this issue, and hence can't verify that
the patch fixes the code which triggered the problem.

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Tres, Martin and I worked out a patch that we thinks solves
the problem.  It's checked in.  See the other bug report for
more info.  If you don't believe the patch will fix your
problem, change the status from pending to open.  Otherwise,
this bug should automatically close in a couple of weeks.

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