Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes. I used a slightly different patch than the one attached to the issue, to be consistent with the style in the rest of the module.
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 794b895..1bd2d70 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -219,8 +219,12 @@
# XXX assuming GLIBC's ldconfig (with option -p)
expr = r'(\S+)\s+\((%s(?:, OS ABI:[^\)]*)?)\)[^/]*(/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*)' \
% (abi_type, re.escape(name))
- res = re.search(expr,
- os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null').read())
+ f = os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')
+ try:
+ data = f.read()
+ finally:
+ f.close()
+ res = re.search(expr, data)
if not res:
return None
return res.group(1)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3466c35..ee97832 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
+
- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().