Den Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:07:44 +0200 skrev Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens: > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle schrieb: >> Hi, When I do a small program like >> >> from subprocess import Popen >> popen = Popen(["ping", "google.com"]) from time import sleep >> sleep(100) >> >> start it and kill it, the ping process lives on. Is there a way to >> ensure that the ping process is always killed when the python process >> is? >> I can't use atexit, as ping then isn't killed when python is killed "in >> the hard way" >> > Calling popen.close() perhaps ? > You basically open a pipe, which spawns a shell and the command is then > started in there. > So, if your program quits, the spawned shell is still alive, only the > pipe is dead.
Problem is - I can't do that when I get killed. Isn't it possible to open processes in such a way like terminals? If I kill the terminal, everything open in it will die too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list