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		patrick451 on Dec 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common shell script mistakes (2008) > I've never had subprocess deadlock — was this on Windows? I've seen this happen seemingly randomly in linux trying to pipe the stdout of one subprocess into the stdin of another.

acdha on Dec 8, 2021 [–]

Interesting, I've never had that happen in heavy usage. I've had cases where the called processes blocked for some reason but that was solved by adding a timeout.

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