[Scons-dev] Subprocess.popen() on win32?

[Bill Deegan]

Jason,

Any limitations with doing this over the current code?
Could you craft a pull request for this?

-Bill

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Kenny <dragon512 at live.com> wrote:

> Been using popen with parts via overriding SPAWN var since the start.
>
> +1 on having this be the default
>
> Jason
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> *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2018 10:32:50 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-dev] Subprocess.popen() on win32?
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> Come now.
> Win32.py's spawn implementation was updated in 2012.. ;)
>
> If we universally switch to subprocess.Popen(), then we can safely chdir
> for non python function actions.
> But passing in the cwd argument.
>
> That seems likely to be useful..
>
> -Bill
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:28 AM Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I shall be flippant in the hope of being humorous, yet with an element of
>> possible truth:
>>
>> Perhaps no-one has bothered to update that bit of code in the last decade
>> and
>> a half?
>>
>>
>> Did you mean subprocess.Popen? Worth noting that the API for subprocess
>> changes from call* in earlier versions to run in later. Somewhat annoying
>> for
>> compatibility across many Python versions.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 10:17 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > Any reason we're not using subprocess.popen() on win32?
>> > We're still using os.spawnve() which is known to have some threading
>> issues.
>> > https://bugs.python.org/issue6476
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