> 'D' denotes a door file. There are several of them in the system; the
> following ones (from /var/run) match the time stamp:

Thanks for the explanation!

> It's common for library routines to open a door and keep it open for
> the entire process lifetime.
> 
> If this was somehow reproducible, I could try to find out what
> specific door gets opened.

test_subprocess fails quite often on your buildbot, so with a bit of
patience you can probably reproduce it for sure. If you use "-r
--randseed 2463396" it will schedule test_subprocess quite early, so you
can stop the test run as soon as that test is finished.

Also, debug output has been added in branches/test_subprocess_10826 :

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%203.x/builds/2574/steps/test/logs/stdio