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Author	vstinner
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, izbyshev, nanjekyejoannah, pablogsal, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2019-01-07.00:13:22
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Message-id	<1546820003.1.0.351247921295.issue35537@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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I wrote PR 11452 which is based on PR 11242 but adds support for 'env' and 'restore_signals' parameters and checks the operating system and libc version to decide if posix_spawn() can be used by subprocess. In my implementation, posix_spawn() is only used on macOS and glibc 2.26 or newer (and glibc 2.24 and newer on Linux). According to Alexey Izbyshev, musl should be safe as well, but I don't know how to test musl on my Fedora, nor how to check if Python is linked to musl, nor what is the minimum musl version which is safe.

I wrote PR 11452 which is based on PR 11242 but adds support for 'env' and 'restore_signals' parameters and checks the operating system and libc version to decide if posix_spawn() can be used by subprocess.

In my implementation, posix_spawn() is only used on macOS and glibc 2.26 or newer (and glibc 2.24 and newer on Linux).

According to Alexey Izbyshev, musl should be safe as well, but I don't know how to test musl on my Fedora, nor how to check if Python is linked to musl, nor what is the minimum musl version which is safe.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-01-07 00:13:25	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, izbyshev, pablogsal, nanjekyejoannah
2019-01-07 00:13:23	vstinner	set	messageid: <1546820003.1.0.351247921295.issue35537@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2019-01-07 00:13:22	vstinner	create