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(cherry picked from commit 8a531f8)

Co-authored-by: andreuu-tsai [email protected]
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya [email protected]

  • Issue: asyncio.create_subprocess_shell does not consistently result in negative returncode on signal termination #138234

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pythongh-138234: clarify returncode behavior for subprocesses created…
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… with `shell=True` (pythonGH-138536)

(cherry picked from commit 8a531f8)

Co-authored-by: andreuu-tsai <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <[email protected]>
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asyncio.create_subprocess_shell does not consistently result in negative returncode on signal termination #138234
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gh-138234: clarify returncode behavior for subprocess_exec vs subprocess_shell #138536
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