repo.git.submodule('foreach', 'git', 'clean', '-xfd') fails with Bad file descriptor error

[grkkarthick90]

OS: Windows 64 bit
gitpython: 2.0.8
git: 2.10.0

I'm trying to clean my submodules using the command repo.git.submodule('foreach', 'git', 'clean', '-xfd'). When executing this getting the below stack trace.

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 466, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_process(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 910, in _call_process
    return self.execute(make_call(), **_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 718, in execute
    raise GitCommandError(command, status, stderr_value)
git.exc.GitCommandError: 'git submodule foreach git clean -xfd' returned with ex
it code 1
stderr: 'C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 311:
0: Bad file descriptor'

Getting the same error for the below commands too,

repo.git.submodule('foreach', 'git', 'reset', '--hard')
 repo.git.submodule('foreach', 'git', 'stash')

But the below commands are getting succeeded in gitpython

repo.git.submodule('update', '--init', '--recursive')
repo.git.submodule('update', '--remote', '--recursive')

Whereas trying to execute git submodule foreach git clean -xfd in windows command prompt or git bash it succeeds without any error.

[Byron]

With Windows, I believe there are all kinds of possible issues related to file-descriptors, and unfortunately I have no means to reproduce it.
However, if someone else runs into this reproduceably, maybe they can help fixing it.