tests: add tests for when stdout or stderr is connected to `os.devnull`
The original motivation was that creating PTYs on Windows is not possible, but
`NUL` is recognized as a TTY, so we can have at least some test coverage for
the TTY case. I think it doesn’t hurt to run the test cases on all systems.
procutil: ensure that procutil.std{out,err}.write() writes all bytes
Python 3 offers different kind of streams and it’s not guaranteed for all of
them that calling write() writes all bytes.
When Python is started in unbuffered mode, sys.std{out,err}.buffer are
instances of io.FileIO, whose write() can write less bytes for
platform-specific reasons (e.g. Linux has a 0x
7ffff000 bytes maximum and could
write less if interrupted by a signal; when writing to Windows consoles, it’s
limited to 32767 bytes to avoid the "not enough space" error). This can lead to
silent loss of data, both when using sys.std{out,err}.buffer (which may in fact
not be a buffered stream) and when using the text streams sys.std{out,err}
(I’ve created a CPython bug report for that:
https://bugs.python.org/
issue41221).
Python may fix the problem at some point. For now, we implement our own wrapper
for procutil.std{out,err} that calls the raw stream’s write() method until all
bytes have been written. We don’t use sys.std{out,err} for larger writes, so I
think it’s not worth the effort to patch them.
procutil: move assignments
This should probably be part of the previous patch, but folding it results in a
less useful word diff, so I decided to keep it separate for review.