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  r84176 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-08-18 22:44:14 +0200 (mer., 18 août 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #9433: The "-j" option to regrtest now works under Windows too.
  It is not sure it will be beneficial, though, since process launching is
  more expensive under Windows than it is under Linux.
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Lib/test/regrtest.py

@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbose=0, quiet=False,
                     popen = Popen([sys.executable, '-E', '-m', 'test.regrtest',
                                    '--slaveargs', json.dumps(args_tuple)],
                                    stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE,
-                                   universal_newlines=True, close_fds=True)
+                                   universal_newlines=True,
+                                   close_fds=(os.name != 'nt'))
                     stdout, stderr = popen.communicate()
                     # Strip last refcount output line if it exists, since it
                     # comes from the shutdown of the interpreter in the subcommand.