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Author vstinner
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Date 2015-04-02.11:54:33
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According to the PEP 475, the close() function must *not* be retried if it fails with EINTR:
- http://alobbs.com/post/54503240599/close-and-eintr
- http://lwn.net/Articles/576478/
- http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2005-09/3000.html
- http://alobbs.com/post/54503240599/close-and-eintr

The _posixsubprocess retries close() when it fails with EINTR. Example:

    while (close(fd_num) < 0 && errno == EINTR);

It should be fixed.
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