No, there's a use case for reading after the child exited, if there is a
grandchild still writing.

--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone)
On Oct 20, 2013 10:37 AM, "Richard Oudkerk" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Richard Oudkerk added the comment:
>
> > I guess we'll have to write platform-dependent code and make this an
> > optional feature. (Essentially, on platforms like AIX, for a
> > write-pipe, connection_lost() won't be called unless you try to write
> > some more bytes to it.)
>
> If we are not capturing stdout/stderr then we could "leak" the write end
> of a pipe to the child.  When the read end becomes readable we can call the
> process protocol's connection_lost().
>
> Or we could just call connection_lost() when reaping the pid.
>
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