commit 826e059bb9b42e17bef2186938a2bd3f33610e69
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Aug 17 11:33:34 2021 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue Aug 17 11:33:34 2021 -0700
tree 3edfc96fded9bff7b087d00ddb96ce5ec55ce435
parent 3f81e9628f6f104c103d0e38adb84c51e5261626

[3.10] bpo-44935: enable posix_spawn() on Solaris (GH-27795) (GH-27800)



Enable posix_spawn() on Solaris
(cherry picked from commit b1930bf75f276cd7ca08c4455298128d89adf7d1)


Co-authored-by: Jakub Kulík <Kulikjak@gmail.com>

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:gpshead

Lib/subprocess.py

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 8203ade..ccb46a6 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -660,8 +660,9 @@ def _use_posix_spawn():
         # os.posix_spawn() is not available
         return False
 
-    if sys.platform == 'darwin':
-        # posix_spawn() is a syscall on macOS and properly reports errors
+    if sys.platform in ('darwin', 'sunos5'):
+        # posix_spawn() is a syscall on both macOS and Solaris,
+        # and properly reports errors
         return True
 
     # Check libc name and runtime libc version