Re: [PATCH] iotests.py: Do not wait() before communicate()

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 30.06.2020 um 10:37 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> Waiting on a process for which we have a pipe will stall if the process
> outputs more data than fits into the OS-provided buffer.  We must use
> communicate() before wait(), and in fact, communicate() perfectly
> replaces wait() already.
> 
> We have to drop the stderr=subprocess.STDOUT parameter from
> subprocess.Popen() in qemu_nbd_early_pipe(), because stderr is passed on
> to the child process, so if we do not drop this parameter, communicate()
> will hang (because the pipe is not closed).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin