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From: Karl Wiberg <kha@virtutech.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Cc: mandolaerik@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around performance bug in subprocess.Popen.communicate()
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090804085125.GB27452@lux.e.vtech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0907310427r7e59aa5fi5e5ff5e3f3c03819@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009-07-31 12:27:53 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> But can this not lead to a deadlock if the __indata is big? The
> stdout of the created process is only processed once the whole
> __indata is written. I thought communicate() was created to avoid
> this issue.

I don't think there's a problem. write() isn't supposed to have a
limit on the amount of data it will accept in one call, as far as I'm
aware. Plus, it works just fine with Erik's test case---which in my
case was about 7 MB. If it can handle 7 MB, I doubt there's a limit
we'll hit anytime soon.

Oh, and we still call communicate()---we just don't pass it any
additional bytes to write to stdin.

-- 
Karl Wiberg, Virtutech

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  9:36 [PATCH] Work around performance bug in subprocess.Popen.communicate() Karl Wiberg
2009-07-31 11:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-04  8:51   ` Karl Wiberg [this message]
2009-08-13 22:18     ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-14  6:21       ` Karl Wiberg
2009-08-14  7:26         ` Erik Sandberg
2009-08-14  8:12           ` Karl Wiberg

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