From 8ebac9bca0bcef06096ee4c6c19c8a6cf325f418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?L=2E=20K=C3=A4rkk=C3=A4inen?=
 <tronic@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:03:00 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify autoreloader, don't need multiprocessing.Process.
 Now works on OSX py38.

---
 sanic/reloader_helpers.py | 29 ++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sanic/reloader_helpers.py b/sanic/reloader_helpers.py
index 5e1338a4..89242439 100644
--- a/sanic/reloader_helpers.py
+++ b/sanic/reloader_helpers.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import signal
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
-from multiprocessing import Process
 from time import sleep
 
 
@@ -35,35 +34,27 @@ def _iter_module_files():
 
 def _get_args_for_reloading():
     """Returns the executable."""
-    rv = [sys.executable]
     main_module = sys.modules["__main__"]
     mod_spec = getattr(main_module, "__spec__", None)
+    if sys.argv[0] in ("", "-c"):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"Autoreloader cannot work with argv[0]={sys.argv[0]!r}"
+        )
     if mod_spec:
         # Parent exe was launched as a module rather than a script
-        rv.extend(["-m", mod_spec.name])
-        if len(sys.argv) > 1:
-            rv.extend(sys.argv[1:])
-    else:
-        rv.extend(sys.argv)
-    return rv
+        return [sys.executable, "-m", mod_spec.name] + sys.argv[1:]
+    return [sys.executable] + sys.argv
 
 
 def restart_with_reloader():
     """Create a new process and a subprocess in it with the same arguments as
     this one.
     """
-    cwd = os.getcwd()
-    args = _get_args_for_reloading()
-    new_environ = os.environ.copy()
-    new_environ["SANIC_SERVER_RUNNING"] = "true"
-    cmd = " ".join(args)
-    worker_process = Process(
-        target=subprocess.call,
-        args=(cmd,),
-        kwargs={"cwd": cwd, "shell": True, "env": new_environ},
+    return subprocess.Popen(
+        _get_args_for_reloading(),
+        cwd=os.getcwd(),
+        env={**os.environ, "SANIC_SERVER_RUNNING": "true"},
     )
-    worker_process.start()
-    return worker_process
 
 
 def kill_process_children_unix(pid):