gh-112800: Ignore PermissionError on SubprocessTransport.close()

allisonkarlitskaya · allisonkarlitskaya · commit f79b680b9a5e · 2023-12-06T16:04:45.000+01:00
In case the spawned process is setuid, we may not be able to send
signals to it, in which case our .kill() call will raise
PermissionError.

Ignore that in order to avoid .close() raising an exception.  Hopefully
the process will exit as a result of receiving EOF on its stdin.
diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/base_subprocess.py b/Lib/asyncio/base_subprocess.py
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ def close(self):
 
             try:
                 self._proc.kill()
-            except ProcessLookupError:
+            except (ProcessLookupError, PermissionError):
+                # the process may have already exited or may be running setuid
                 pass
 
             # Don't clear the _proc reference yet: _post_init() may still run
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-06-16-01-33.gh-issue-112800.TNsGJ-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-06-16-01-33.gh-issue-112800.TNsGJ-.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :mod:`asyncio` ``SubprocessTransport.close()`` not to throw
+``PermissionError`` when used with setuid executables.

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@`
	`1`	+Fix :mod:`asyncio` ``SubprocessTransport.close()`` not to throw
	`2`	+``PermissionError`` when used with setuid executables.