Well, yes if it was reproducible with gfal2 it probably also was with plain xrootd client, but what is in this case closing the file descriptor in between the `fork` and `exec`? In case of `subprocess` + `close_fds=True` it is the Python runtime, isn't it? -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1198#issuecomment-856647129 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1