* subprocess.Popen now longer uses posix_spawn() if uid, gid or gids are set.
* test_subprocess: add "nobody" and "nfsnobody" group names for test_group().
* test_subprocess: test_user() and test_group() are now also tested with close_fds=False.
* subprocess: Add user, group and extra_groups paremeters to subprocess.Popen
This adds a `user` parameter to the Popen constructor that will call
setreuid() in the child before calling exec(). This allows processes
running as root to safely drop privileges before running the subprocess
without having to use a preexec_fn.
This also adds a `group` parameter that will call setregid() in
the child process before calling exec().
Finally an `extra_groups` parameter was added that will call
setgroups() to set the supplimental groups.
Fixes a possible hang when using a timeout on subprocess.run() while
capturing output. If the child process spawned its own children or otherwise
connected its stdout or stderr handles with another process, we could hang
after the timeout was reached and our child was killed when attempting to read
final output from the pipes.
As noted by @eryksun in [1] and [2], using _cleanup and _active(in
__del__) is not necessary on Windows, since:
> Unlike Unix, a process in Windows doesn't have to be waited on by
> its parent to avoid a zombie. Keeping the handle open will actually
> create a zombie until the next _cleanup() call, which may be never
> if Popen() isn't called again.
This patch simply defines `subprocess._active` as `None`, for which we already
have the proper logic in place in `subprocess.Popen.__del__`, that prevents it
from trying to append the process to the `_active`. This patch also defines
`subprocess._cleanup` as a noop for Windows.
[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue37380#msg346333
[2] https://bugs.python.org/issue36067#msg336262
Signed-off-by: Ruslan Kuprieiev <ruslan@iterative.ai>
Fix an unintended ValueError from :func:`subprocess.run` when checking for
conflicting `input` and `stdin` or `capture_output` and `stdout` or `stderr` args
when they were explicitly provided but with `None` values within a passed in
`**kwargs` dict rather than as passed directly by name.
Close pipes/fds in subprocess by using ExitStack.
"In case of premature failure on X.Close() or os.close(X) the remaining pipes/fds will remain "open". Perhaps it makes sense to use contextlib.ExitStack."
- Rationale: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11575#discussion_r250288394
* subprocess.Popen can now also use os.posix_spawn() with pipes,
but only if pipe file descriptors are greater than 2.
* Fix Popen._posix_spawn(): set '_child_created' attribute to True.
* Add Popen._close_pipe_fds() helper function to factorize the code.
The subprocess module can now use the os.posix_spawn() function
in some cases for better performance. Currently, it is only used on macOS
and Linux (using glibc 2.24 or newer) if all these conditions are met:
* executable path contains a directory
* close_fds=False
* preexec_fn, pass_fds, cwd, stdin, stdout, stderr
and start_new_session parameters are not set
Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <nanjekyejoannah@gmail.com>
The "-I" command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now
also copied by the multiprocessing and distutils modules when
spawning child processes. Previously, only -E and -s options (enabled
by -I) were copied.
subprocess._args_from_interpreter_flags() now copies the -I flag.
If buffering=1 is specified for open() in binary mode, it is silently
treated as buffering=-1 (i.e., the default buffer size).
Coupled with the fact that line buffering is always supported in Python 2,
such behavior caused several issues (e.g., bpo-10344, bpo-21332).
Warn that line buffering is not supported if open() is called with
binary mode and buffering=1.
subprocess.Popen now copies the startupinfo argument to leave it
unchanged: it will modify the copy, so that the same STARTUPINFO
object can be used multiple times.
Add subprocess.STARTUPINFO.copy() method.
