tests: proof test-stdio.py against buffer fill-up With the previous code, it could in theory happen that the pipe / PTY buffer of the child stdout / stderr fills up and the process never finishes. To prevent that, we read all of the stream before waiting for the end of the process. To ensure that the stream reaches EOF when the child finishes, we must close the parent "copy" of the child stdout / stderr.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import errno
import os
import sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print(f, '->', os.readlink(f))
    except OSError as err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print(f, '->', f, 'not a symlink')

sys.exit(0)