bpo-37380: subprocess: don't use _active on win (GH-14360) (GH-15707)
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/issue37380GH-msg346333
[2] https://bugs.python.org/issue36067GH-msg336262
Signed-off-by: Ruslan Kuprieiev <ruslan@iterative.ai>
(cherry picked from commit 042821ae3cf537e01963c9ec85d1a454d921e826)
Co-authored-by: Ruslan Kuprieiev <kupruser@gmail.com>
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